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worries about the growing nuclear threat from killing yang. the my name is most chance. thanks for joining us. we take a closer look at the disappearance of ching gong, china's foreign minister until tuesday, when the communist party announced he'd been relieved of his post. chain gun had simply disappeared for an entire month. and until this week, no one knew why. high profile chinese gone missing is kind of a phenomenon. there was tech tycoon jack mall who criticized china's financial regulators in 2020, then vanished a mid crack down on tech entrepreneurs, famous actress fung being being disappeared for 4 months only to reappear. seeing praises of the communist party tennis start punch. why accused

a top official of sexual assault and again went missing only to reappear, saying it was all a misunderstanding. and now we have chewing gum. the foreign minister, formerly a close ally of shooting king, there are rumors, he had an extra marital affair with a t v journalist. so joining us in the studio is dw china analyst, clifford conan clifford. can you tell us of the latest concerning the disappearance of change on how big a deal is this? well, it's a big deal. i mean, if you imagine on an unattainable block or anthony blinking, disappearing and made rumors of an affair, and then, and then a few months, a few weeks later they're fired. it's, it's all, it's that kind of level. but perhaps more importantly, what it is, it's another example of how to do. we know how things actually work in at the top echelons of power in china. it's a black box. we don't know how decisions are made on key issues such as the,

the appointment of the foreign minister or the position of the foreign minister of the country. and as we pointed out just now, he's just one of a number of high profile chinese, whether they are government officials or celebrities who have gone missing and you reported from china and you've been observing this for a very long time. what does this tell us about the attorney state? well, i think the disappearance or the purging of, of senior party come his party officials. there's nothing new these to say when sherman miles allies disappeared at the 2 mountains, 2 tigers cannot share the same mansion. what is different, i think with the current situation in the people's republic of china is that this cuts across society, it used to be just the party congress. they kind of know what's going on. they understand the political game. but now we have things like tech type coons, we have film stars. all of these things are relatively new. and part of the new china for what we're learning is that they to control victim of these kind of purges that they're also being eligible accountable for their actions. and that if

they don't fit into the dog man, they don't fit into what's required of them. that they to can be disappeared. and then often sometimes they come back and like jack mall has come back with his company large. the gone as far as he's concerned, or like finding being she comes back and she says that she's, she feels dash, uh, she feels ashamed to what she did and it's helped her to become com. right. and so with regard back to this new foreign minister we have, does that mean that chinese foreign policy changes at all? i, i, it strikes me that because when he was, he's the previous foreign minister. i think he looks more like a, like a and a sort of a, an interim measure really. i wouldn't be surprised if they do name a new uh, foreign minister to take over that position. but i don't think foreign policy itself will change. i think we're gonna stick to very much the, the current farm policy, which seems to be a resolution approach to, to the united states, to warmer ties of russia. and then also keeping the,

keeping your up on a us a part. clifford couldn't and thanks so much for joining us in the studio. this week marks the seventy's anniversary of the signing of the korean armistice which suspended though technically did not. and the korean war, 5000000 people died in that site, half of them civilians, and also korean american and chinese soldiers. it divided career engine north and south and has since turned from a hot war to a cold conflict was become today some 28000 us soldiers remain stationed in south korea. and along the inside this d. m. z, north and south korean soldiers are ever ready to pick up where they left off. as dw georg matches reports from the 38th parallel of the cold war lives on here in pun one, drum the demilitarized,

so between north and south korea, south korean soldiers keep close watch on every move their communists. neighbors make tensions of running high as north korea tests, as a more sophisticated besides some can even reach cities in the us, the country that has pledged to protect south korea. this is most of the dangerous moment because there is a shortage of a symmetric, a capabilities. those go ahead which is nuclear capability. once they either use new nukes, or threats, and the serious of interesting to you to use nukes, we don't have any plan or keep an eye to keep, defend the country. it is very thoughtful that whether american government to actually responded with new do nuclear weapons. north and south korea, a formerly still at war with each other. the demilitarized zone bulls established in july 1953 when they ended 3 years of bloody war with the korean armistice

agreement. relations between the 2 have had many highs and lows over the past 70 years, but they have now cooled considerably. reunification is not high on the agenda for many people in the south korean capital. so young age like me, get a lot of pressure by leading their own life. but at the same time, if we are thinking about the reunion is some point they have but like a concern, do we have to take care of them to community? they went on, don't worry about the increase texas. i will have to pay off to a possible unification that might concern the one of them, i guess for a most like all or koreans like with my age, i think they see a more of a distance topic rather than re unification. i think most people want to like just total separation. i think also most of to some poles in south korea, sho, about 3 quarters of the public now support the idea of nuclear armament to counter

threats from the north. johnson who owns as south korea should accept the fact that the north has nuclear weapons instead of insisting on nuclear relation as a precondition for adults. he things south 3 of us to not he's when it signed the so called the nuclear ization declaration, just as ukraine was when it gave up it's nuclear weapons. budapest member run. one of the reason why the crunch itself plans are concerned about it is nuclear threat is that we are seeing what your current experience is, is we will understand that you print with nuclear weapons will not be in bed by the rush. you know, they won't have to have to leave from russia who is supposed to provide sure to guarantee to create a very similar destiny is the evidence, even though he say the walking the streets of sold. this frozen conflict seems very far away until one encounters, one of the many memorial sites in town,

like here at the warm museum of korea, commemorating the 10s of thousands of south korean and united nation soldiers who died in the korean war 7 decades later lasting peace still seems out of reach. joining us as james bradwell and analyst at n k news. thanks for coming on the program. so we mark 70 years of a frozen war and a gosh, looking at p on the on today. kim john is firing off missiles and north korea is a nuclear state. this is where things stand, right? or indeed. yeah. and snow korea really keeps ploughing ahead very quickly with this uh new to the width and missile capabilities. the big part of the story was in 2017, when it launched as fast as all capable of hitting the us. and in the past few

months is successfully tested. it's best solid fuel in this comes. and then sol, ballistic missile now bought some wholesome because wal, at no credit was able to hit the main line us with liquids, you'll miss all since 2017. so the only files that everything else, the cold, you can prepare the much more quickly. the launch, so basically bottom line is the adult career is getting quite capable with its missiles and that's very bad news, but will be us and south korea. right. and this is the kind of situation um, when we look at the 2 sides facing off, that ukrainian officials must be wondering. i'm saying we absolutely need to avoid . and, and i say this because of course in eastern ukraine, it's looking like a tough counter offensive, given the russian military, digging in literally with 10, with trenches rather along an entire front. no as well. so i

think uh when it comes to mid to west, the zip codes, one reason why the west ism intervening directly with treat some of the grounds. uh and ukraine is because this morning about uh, rushes in into a weapons, rice. and um, if we look at the korean peninsula, uh, south korea, you know, it is going to be getting very nervous about no pre is in breathing weapons capabilities of coal online q crane south career. it does have a military alliance with the us. so the us is meant to come and help it out. uh, it is a tax, final korea. but when like falling this alliance in the 1950s, most career didn't have any kind of weapons and they definitely didn't have this. i'll capable of firing them all the way up to the main line to us. it does now and south koreans and thinking, well, you know, create incredibly the rest in the us with the need to a strike with the washington really comes. all right. there was the rest of

a retaliatory strike. yeah. um, how serious is it that the south koreans are wondering whether they should um, acquire nuclear weapons? i mean that is something that's growing as our report mentioned or yeah. so i have the beginning of the current president, it's time you suck your uh, there was a lot of support and there was a lot of talk about that career development. so i need to weapons. however, i use some of this with j biden, in washington in april they agreed to create a single, the new to us and sol. so great. and this is meant to be this kind of dialogue. whereas south career and american discuss me to a use in the events of the, of the know for an attack. and this seems to have a call some bids about america's commitment to south career and kind of

calling about that dialogue about software development. certainly to weapons. however, this, this consults the great, you know, it's a little bit vague as at the end of the day, south korea doesn't have any, uh, or is the either american use of nuclear weapons. so i think for now and yeah, there's going to be less talk about soft drinks in the weapons, but in the years to come, i think united simply these questions going to be raised again. james. brett, well, thank you so much for joining us. and that's it. for the program, i, melissa chad and thanks for watching and good by the there's no, i'm just trying to have a site to make the right decision to dw and, you know, follow the

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a local semi conductor production. we'll hear about the taiwanese put makers, p. s. m fees plans to open shop in germany. this is the only business i mother xena . welcome to the show, a tech guy and microsoft and google reported better than expected earnings in the 2nd quarter of this year. google parent alphabet announced a 7 percent revenue rise. microsoft earnings rows even more by 8 percent, only last year, the tech companies had embarked on a major layoff and costs cuttings free. since then both have invested heavily to develop and deployed a i tools into some of their core products. for more on this, i'm joined by it's called to on wall street games. what role does the new a i tool it's play for google's and microsoft profitable quarter? where let me not the official intelligence that clearly was clear incentive when it comes to the questions from an analyst and both companies.