bernard, -- bernhard bartsch, that's a good question. how reliable is china?y could be engaging in massive overstretch here. bernhard: if you look at it from a german perspective, then they are not very big investors yet. they are strategic investors. silk road, at the they have a lot of money to spend, but they can't buy the world. they will need other countries to support the initiative. i think that's the main challenge. it is not only about money. we should not only look at the spends, we area also spending a lot of money. the west is spending a lot of money. it's not like china invented building bridges and roads and developing countries. maybe they invented that 5000 years ago, but right now they are doing with the world bank and a lot of other development agagencies have been doing. peter: it's interesting, because china, in advance of merkel's has been complaining itself and asking, how reliable is germany as a trading partner? china points to a protectionist trend in germany, saying only 0.3% in frying -- of foreign investment stems from china. the ch

moment i'll be back with more from the board bartsch where the people are carrying the portraits of their relatives who won world war two for us. it was time. to think of nazi germany in one nine hundred forty five day is a very personal day for many. people who fought in the. international this wednesday the ninety. five in the russian capital russia is celebrating celebrating victory day today marking the defeat of nazi germany it is the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great patriotic war as it's known here in russia which claimed the lives of more than twenty six million people. well this was really a family in russia that wasn't affected by the pool almost everybody does have relatives who fought the nazis and in their own a special monch known as the a move to regiment is held every year it's on the way in moscow right now and we can cross one of our correspondents who is in the thick of it so you are trying to i think is that in amongst the march and also on the left that we have done who can say let's start with india and i think even more king for something like ninety

to discuss that question i'm joined by three excellent analysts here in the studio beginning with bartsch who's a senior expert on china for the battles money foundation he believes that trying to balance china's influence in a reasonable way may be running. also with us is under as clute editor in chief of hundreds plus global he was once based in hong kong and has for many years followed the rise of china and korea says that europe should stop being naive china has a plan for economic domination of the aeration landmass scene. and a very warm welcome to to ruth kershner ruth is a freelance journalist and china expert and she argues that china's belton road initiative is a good idea in principle but she goes on it lacks transparency. and ties participating countries into an oath already tarion system. thank you all three for being here with me today i'd like to begin with you on this with a big statement to show you say china has a plan for the economic domination of the eurasian lunch and sees so how close is beijing to realizing that goal beijing has a long time horizon which is one of

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. >> martha: now with more, mark i bartsch and jessica tarlov. welcome. it was a stunning moment for this whole movement today. to watch harvey weinstein in that courtroom, he seemed at points, mark, to be floored by what the judge was saying. and there was a woman who was a detective who walked him in, and she was standing right behind him through the whole thing. but you said that prosecutors do not have a slam-dunk case? >> if they don't. and the court of public opinion, without question, guilty as can be, pick up the pitchforks and hang him in the town square. but in the court of law, and let's make one thing clear, i'm not suggesting he is innocent. but in the court of law, they will streamline this case and focus exclusively on that one victim, and the other victim will be handled at a different trial. what are the specific allegations? dna, and ben bronfman who i know well will do everything to destroy her credibility. and it's sad if she's telling the truth because that's how these cases are. but it's not a slam-dunk at all. >> martha: you know, w

and for more i'm joined now in the studio by panhard bartsch a asia affairs expert at germany's baritones month foundation think tank thank you so much for joining us this evening we're talking about a reliance between china and germany i mean they're perhaps unlikely allies but are we seeing you know the current tensions especially with the united states pushing these two together which say. you could say that it's a very awkward embrace because germany is hoping to team up with china to balance the chaos in the u.s. at the same time europe is trying to team up with the u.s. to balance china's growing influence so it's a very complicated situation what are the biggest stumbling blocks between the two we're looking at for example germany and china the biggest issue at the moment is the economic competition and the lack of reciprocity and what has really changed in the last two years and it's a big headache for german business is that china is now openly competitive china within the next seven years wants to be a world leader in a lot of technologies that traditionally german industries ar