influence on these decisions and they will not be applied, although we warned local residents about how they should behave, where to be, which areas to choose for location so as not to be affected in the event of such a man-made disaster. defense operational command south was in touch with us in a few moments news of the economy during the war with andriy yanitsky we pass on the word of colleagues today the central topic is china's economy andriy yanitsky with news economy on the espresso tv channel as usual on weekdays at 8:00 a.m. this is a live broadcast and at 11 p.m. - it's a repeat

when it's convenient. and to his friends let the people know the truth in ukraine, once again temporarily restricting the supply of electricity in the ukrenergo company reported that the largest volume of outages was in kyiv and also in kyiv, chernihiv, cherkasy, zhytomyr, kharkiv in the poltava and sumy regions, such forced steps are being taken to reduce the load on the power grid. it is also important that the energy workers have the opportunity to repair the equipment damaged by the russian attacks. khmelnytskyi remains partially without power, noted the head of the regional military administration serhiy gamalii. russia is deliberately blocking the implementation of the grain corridor, because of this, ukrainian ports were the last to work. the other day, only at a third of its capacity, the spokesman of the odesa regional military reported this serhiychuk's administration despite this, the supply of food continues. yesterday, the sixth ship within

the framework of the un world food program went to yemen. in general, ukrainian grain has already been sent to africa, asia, and europe, a unique country, a unique ukraine, an indomitable nation that, despite the war, implements the mechanisms that will provide the world population with grain and other agro-industrial products of the highest quality. well, nothing grain, the initiative will be extended, there is no doubt about it, although the enemy, as they say, is ready for everything it will not be possible to neutralize it, i would like to note that due to the fact that russia is inhibiting the implementation of the grain corridor,

a queue of 170 ships has already accumulated at the entrance and exit of our ports. denis, he left the kherson region under fire. now he has launched a new online business in lviv and it is quite successful, but our correspondent kateryna oliynyk denis maksimov has been watching how it all happens for 20 years. i worked as a jeweler in kherson, but the war forced my husband to leave his hometown and go to his bride in relatively calm lviv, the jewelry that was made, the tool that i collected for years remained in kherson, unfortunately, and here i had to start all over from scratch to buy a brand of silver accessories that already exists within five months, you can buy products on the instagram page or in several showrooms in different cities , entrepreneurs give part of their profits to the needs of the armed forces, all of our jewelry, our entire line is patriotic jewelry, all of those things

that inspire people that give people faith in the fact that ukraine stands for you in many decorations , the ear of corn is the main symbol of the brand. with it, you can buy about ten variations of silver products. we decided that we need to start with something and make some kind of decoration that will be er basic came to us the opinion that it should be the ear of corn itself, because the ear of corn is a symbol of fertility, as a symbol of the renaissance, another sales move accessory with a map of our country one of our ornaments is a pendant with ukraine with an outline ukraine and its peculiarity is that we put our heart exactly in the place where the customer wants , the couple does all the work on their own, so far not hiring

other employees, says co-founder zoryana , while denis will create a girl with his hands, he is responsible for the visual presentation of communication with customers and sales. sometimes it happens that we do something together let's come up with it and i'm already drawing these ornaments so that they go there , we have a super huge assortment, i recently counted and there are a lot of types of rings, brooches, necklaces, cafes, everything you can imagine now, and this is our main feature, and the brand creates both women's and men's jewelry. you can also order silver beauty. by individual design, inventing your own stencil, one of such exciting stories, i would say, that just inspires me, this is our a soldier of the zsu sent us a stone that was thrown into his pocket by an explosive wave, and he decided to use this stone to make a pendant decorated in silver. here he sent us this

stone, and we made it in the plans of young entrepreneurs to purchase an additional machine that will help speed up the production of jewelry. also, denis dreams of treating his bride to watermelons in the liberated ukrainian kherson. kateryna oliynyk roman kovalyuk espresso tv channel well, we will move from microeconomics to macroeconomics, let's talk with dmytro efremov, he is an associate professor of the department of international relations of the kyiv-mohyla academy , candidate of economic sciences and an expert in ukrainian association of chinese scholars, we will speak clearly about china dmitry tayaya good morning, we all know that china is one of the most powerful economies at the same time, i have repeatedly heard that the statistics that come from china are the ninth. that the numbers are twisted. can you explain the situation? is china still a powerful economy or not? can you trust the statistics provided by

international bodies? you know what's going on here . interesting the fact is that over these 10 years, what are the current pockets between countries, all but he is in power , the amount of statistics published even by the chinese bureau of statistics has decreased significantly. that is, it most likely means that the chinese will be afraid that their they study them, they study them, they find their weak points. i think it's all the russian federation. its behavior in the international arena has led to such a reaction from the chinese because they are afraid that researchers and western countries will find their weak points through these statistics and use it against them, for example through the mechanism because of the introduction of sanctions , the chinese government is gradually but irreversibly reducing the amount of publicly available statistics for observers, that is, their statistics show that they still showed something

if they are afraid to publish it, it means that at least we could monitor trends based on it. well, i think that in general we can say something about the economy. well, for example, what is the economy of china based on? basic goods and what is in china? i think it is important to analyze here not so much the structure of economic sectors as the structure of ownership e. domestic products are only a third, but a much larger population is employed there, and this third is concentrated around such nodal , most important sectors. the public sector is present to varying degrees in various sectors, for example , metallurgy. it is very present, it is present in the agricultural sector, but there also

private entrepreneurs play an important role the sector, for example , microelectronics, is still dominated by private players, but the state sets the direction of development and through control over key sectors - this is metallurgy fintech context in terms of the financial component, yes, this is the banking system, this is some engineering companies, because of this, and, of course, energy, because of this, it sets e-e impulses and affects the e-economy through, for example, the mechanism of influencing the prices of suppliers through various subsidies and preferential loans and so on, that is, china retains control over the economy, despite the fact that formally it is a market economy, and one of these we have to be able to push back against during the analysis of how china works. china, you mentioned that the west can

impose sanctions on china at the same time. we also heard a lot about the fact that the west cannot do without china, because china buys the debt securities of the united states of america. and at the same time, china cannot do without the west, there is such an interdependence, because they mainly try to sell their goods and er, in these captive rich markets er, in particular and in america well, we saw what happened during trump's time. so when he tried to change this system a little. and now , is china dependent on the west and vice versa? indeed , the dependence still persists and it is still very high, even the trade volumes testify to this bilateral between the usa and china and the usa and europe, they reach a trillion with a tail of e-e dollars, and it is this dependence, of course, which is felt in both

countries and makes them vulnerable. the policy is aimed at severing ties with china and now china is also responding to this with its strategy which is known as the policy of double circulation, that is, there is an external economy and an internal economy and they should work separately only intersecting at some nodal points, which will reduce the vulnerability of the domestic economy to bifurcation in the foreign economy, this is china's strategy, and indeed the parties are using measures and taking steps to maximally disconnect in economic relations, as a result, in the world, we will move to the point where polarization will occur in the economic divided political of the world between these two important players it is similar to the times of the cold war when there was the warsaw bloc and the bloc

of western countries and now the world is moving in in the same direction, i hope that this will not happen, but the trend towards deglobalization is well, it is obvious that if we talk about china and ukraine, china has also become the main trading partner of ukraine, at least as of last year, if we do not take the european union as a single country, if we take it separately by country , then china was in the first place and in fact kneaded russia, eh, now this trend continues, you know, it is very difficult to say, but the fact that china is a consumer of our agricultural products is very important , eh, that's right. it really was like that in china, it's always been a diversified approach to the sources of supply of raw materials and agricultural products, and now what has fallen out of ukraine is asking without particular difficulties for itself, it is being replaced by other directions; moreover, in china there are sufficient accumulated reserves of the most important

food products, including wheat and corn, which they bought from ukraine, therefore for china the loss of ukraine as a supplier does not pose a serious problem. well, for us it is of course connected with the fact that russia has blocked our export possibilities by sea and therefore, we are forced to somehow adapt and look for detours in order to reach the chinese markets. of course, as a result of this, the turnover of goods has decreased many times, and at the same time , economic dependence has decreased. there are also positive features of this process in relation to russia . many have also heard that russia is called a raw material appendage of china. how fair is this? how true is this? propaganda. how much truth is there? it is quite fair that the volume of expert organization of them from russia to china is growing in china.

now it buys all these energy sources from russia at a significant discount, and there were even reports that the chinese then resells the energy resources purchased by the chinese to europe, that is, china earns money from russia. russia, having used it to come to such a bad policy, depends on china and most likely this dependence will to grow because they , on the one hand, are not really thinking about what they are going to do next, they say that they need to come to terms with china in bilateral calculations for the use of the national currency. of course, the ruble which is now extremely unstable and extremely dilapidated, the chinese will not use it. but they will be traders in yuan with the russians, which means that over time russia will become financially dependent on china. e oil pipeline, and even when it was being built, there were

expert opinions that it would not be profitable, that it was an exclusively political decision, and now, when the price of russian oil will be limited as a result of the sanctions, and in general, they will never repay it there is no construction with official statements of this, but most likely it will not support this price ceiling, but this is in principle the most important because if it is possible to buy oil or gas elsewhere cheaper, then it will be more profitable to orientate your purchases to another source of supply, indeed, such sanctions are faster than everything will cause harm to the russian federation was re-elected as the head of the communist party of china and, as far as i understand, this is a significant event. it is political in nature, but it was the reason for our conversation today and what does it mean for of the economy, will something change in china's behavior or

will it continue to follow the path we were on, and this re-election somehow strengthened the position of the chinese leader ? personally loyal and devoted to him, who essentially owe you and who will be more consistent in the performance of the tasks that he will set before them, well, now they have changed the composition of the party's top leadership, this means that in other centers of the middle and city level such changes will take place. and after some time in the spring there will be a change of those persons who manage the executive bodies in accordance with this new party structure. so, after that, it is true that his position and influence and control over the economy

will rather be non-collegial management or in regulation of the economy, but the directive is a one-person one that will proceed from it as a single decision-making center and further spread to economic, political and social relations , that is, if before the re-elections it was possible to say well, no about democracy, of course, and about some limited palette of opinions, so in the leadership, that is, about the collective management of the chinese, they called consultative democracy consultative democracy, er, this is this transition from consultative democracy to actual autocracy, and is it dangerous from the point of view that china can still to gain control over thailand by force, well , radicalize and move to a war economy, and as we see well, the only thing that can be for us here is the example of the russian federation, where the leaders who

concentrated in their hands on the usual many power and surrounded himself only with those people who were his supporters who were essentially diapers and not some kind of good managers, he loses touch with reality and is prone to accepting inadequate ones . it really exists dmytro, thank you for the explanation and for such thorough comments . dmytro yefremov was an associate professor of the department of international relations of the kyiv-mohyla academy , a candidate of economic sciences and an expert in ukrainian associations of chinese scholars talked about china's economy and the threat that china's economy will also go to war against the background of the fact that the chinese leader has taken over and is taking over more and more power, it was andriy yanitskyi with economic news on espresso tv channels, we will win together, join the community with a

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parents children neighbors students doctors teachers soldiers we are all everyone regardless of age beliefs likes convictions and we are all now you we will win glory to ukraine glory to the heroes death to the enemies you are on the espresso channel i am a pot of sherinda and khrystyna yatskiv we will be with you a little later this morning and now we will watch an exclusive interview of vitaly portnikova, our journalist colleague of the espresso tv channel, with the minister of foreign affairs and ivaniv joseph lu, let's watch and then come back to this studio, i would like to sincerely thank you, mr. ministers, for agreeing to participate in our broadcast, our guest, the minister of foreign affairs of the republic of china in taiwan, joseph joseph oun, and the first question that i i want to ask you, of course, it is related to this

war that ukraine is currently going through, do you see any parallels between the situation in ukraine before this full-scale russian invasion and the current armed threats of the people's republic of china near the borders of taiwan? i did not understand the question very well, but it is assumed that you are asking about the situation in ukraine and what they think about it in taiwan, we wish that the war in ukraine is a tragedy. we saw how russia started a war against ukraine on february 24, this is completely contrary to the most important of the principle of the united nations, such actions are an atrocity against innocent people in ukraine, as well as a violation of all international legal norms, we will never approve of this, we will

fight aggression together with ukrainians. how do you characterize the security situation around taiwan? just now, high-ranking politicians of the united states visited taiwan states speaker of the house of representatives nancy pilots on the other hand the other day we heard new possible threats of force from the head of the people's republic of china all dengping during the communist party congress china how serious do you think this is and how does the war going on in ukraine affect it? the war in ukraine affects our thoughts. here in taiwan, we have seen what an authoritarian country can do to a peaceful democracy

. territorial integrity of another country, our people see what is happening in ukraine , we understand. support that comes to ukraine from us we not only condemn the actions of russia, but also in the future we will continue to fight side by side with the ukrainians against any aggression by the chinese authoritarian regime, they threaten us just as the russians agreed to ukraine ukraine wills of the we will be able to learn

how to defend ourselves in ukraine, the conclusions we made from your war are invaluable. we realized that determination is very important. the will to self-defense demonstrated by the ukrainians was a surprise for us. this was reflected in the international support of the country. also allows the ukrainians to resist russian aggression, and i your oration to watch how the ukrainians push the russians out of their territory inch by inch city by city eventually the ukrainians will be able to push the russians out of their territory in general if the taiwanese are as persistent they will be able to resist any aggression from the opposite side of the

taiwanese straits can you tell us about the position of taiwan after the russian attack on ukraine in february 2022 to what extent do you share the words of the speaker of the house of representatives of the american of the congress, mrs. nancy pilosyu said the words they said before arriving in taipei, that this war is part of the conflict between democracies and dictatorships, so now in the world we see such a growing trend , democracy on the one hand, authoritarianism on the other , authoritarian countries are becoming more aggressive than before , they unite our efforts for cooperation, we see this on the example of russia, china, the russians resorted to specific actions to go to war against the ukrainian people. and we also witnessed

atrocities and cruelty against innocent people. very aggressive not only in relation to taiwan but also in the entire region they penetrated to the first island chain deep in the pacific ocean china signed a security agreement with the solomon islands which are very far from china but very close to australia and new zealand but chinese authoritarianism looks not only at this part the world is also looking at the indian ocean. the chinese are taking a broad initiative to establish their naval ports along the indian ocean. this shows china's ambitions for global expansion in our view.

china with its power can be more dangerous than russia. it has the ability to project its philosophy and authoritarianism to change the rules of the basic international order. now we see that china and russia are cooperating with each other. this is a very dangerous trend. i think that in response, democratic countries should cooperate to prevent further the spread of authoritarianism , mr. minister, what help does taiwan provide and can provide to ukraine in these difficult times for our country, starting from february 24, the people and ivaniv expressed great support for ukraine, we condemn russia's aggression and agree with the united states of

europe and japan regarding the introduction and strengthening of sanctions against russia. next month, we will provide humanitarian aid to ukrainian refugees living in eastern europe, poland, the czech republic , slovakia, the baltic states. we have collected a humanitarian cargo for ukraine of 562 tons, we will continue to do this. i personally spoke with some mayors of cities, in particular kyiv, kharkiv, buchi, we called them and transferred aid from taiwan ukraine in the future, when the war ends, taiwan, together with poland, slovakia

, the czech republic, will work to restore your beautiful country. in my opinion, the most important thing is that the taiwanese people support ukraine in this struggle. this is what we hope the ukrainian people understand. let's talk about the contacts that taiwan maintains today in ukraine and the contacts that he would like to maintain, you have already talked about relations with representatives of local self-government , let's say you had a conversation with the mayor of ukraine the capital