of flight was carrying 180 passengers who received special permission to travel from the chinese authorities many are executives with german companies and the deal was brokered by the german chamber of commerce china has bought most non-citizens from entering the country to prevent the introduction of new infections. and someone who was on that flight was our correspondent mathias berninger he joins me now from tianjin where he's in quarantine material hi tell us more about the person who tested positive and what that means for you. it was 34 year old engineer from a small place in the south of germany authorities have really released quite a bit of data he entered the country without symptoms and with a body temperature of 36.3 degrees. that is what we know so far he must have tested negative in frankfurt because he was on that flight and passengers were tested before the flight so now here we haven't heard anything but let's just have a look 1st at what hour this flight was organized and how the security measures were let's have a look. i am here in frankfurt airport usually one of europe's busiest airports it's eerily empty these days a few people however are queuing up in front of a loun

so there's certainly a lot of a lot of potential downsides for the german economy but we know that germany's an export nation as well in the german chambers of commerce are predicting a 20 percent plunge in german exports to the u.s. this year why such a steep fold there. will they mention a couple different factors but it's really important remember how crucial the u.s. is for the german export or is it the biggest it's the biggest export market for germany. last year had a record. exported about $130000000000.00 worth of goods and now as and as is as is the case globally they're really seeing a huge drop and drop in demand in the u.s. and the economic situation in the u.s. is even more severe than here in germany so that the market for for cars and for machinery is very very weak right now and that's all really going to put a big hamper on the industrial side of the german economy as well. financial correspondent chelsea filling in for us thank you for that update. they say necessity is the mother of invention and that is something many businesses are finding out in during the coronavirus crisis germany's small wine makers are putting a tough time

been massively out front on the scale of decades of chinese-german experience, for that matter, china and the west. he is with the eu chamber of commercerg wuttke, we are honored to have you with us. what is the zeitgeist missing in this collapse of u.s.-china relations? well, the suggestion of the rather -- we came from two years of trade war and now venturing into tech war. and now the coronavirus is knocking down the last pieces of any reconciliation possible. where these two massive economies are heading. but what can we do? european business is trying to position itself independently from that. tom: as you well know, and you have seen it certainly, there is always a vacuum to fill. which vacuum will china fill in our political discourse right now? where will they go to fit the solution? minister who has represented europe already made it very clear he sees a battle of narratives heading our way, meaning that china is trend overcome the fact that they have been very sloppy in the beginning and did not communicate well to the world, by not protecting themselves as the savior. this is not possibly going to go down well with many plac