she is an economist at the evil instances at the center for international economics in you nick dr to date you've called on the e.u. to strengthen ties with asian countries including china why do you think this is so important right now. so 1st of all with merges of global value chains became really important in the whole global production especially in europe many final goods rely heavily on asian intermediates and therefore we gain significantly if we managed to reduce trade costs with asia with respect to china i think the european union has a high interest in strengthening the ties especially because china's such as such a large country and therefore a large market also for european firms but however i also think that the european union has does not want to strengthen the ties with china at any price so there are a couple of non-negotiable for the european union for example the protection of intellectual property rights and so before these are solved i don't think we will see that much of a strengthening there i'd like to pick up on some of the is that that night china is consider

for european companies. >> to talk more about china's economic ties with europe and the rest of the world i am joined by an economist at the center for internationalcs in munich. you have called on the eu to strengthen ties with asian countries including china. why do you think this is so important right now? >> so, with the emergence of global value chains asia became important in global production, especially in europe, many final goodrely heavily on asian intermediates. therefore, we gain gnificantl if we managed to reduce trade costs with asia. with respect to china, i think the european union has a high interest in strengthening ties, especial because china is such a largeountry and therefore a large market also for european firms. but, however, i also think that the european union has -- does not want to strengthen ties with cha at any price. so there are a couple of nonnegotiable's for the european union. fo example, e protecon of intellectual property rights. so, before these are solved, i do not think we will see that much of a strengthening there. >> i would like to pick up on something you set. china is considereto be a difficult partne

she's an economist at the eagle institute at the center for international economics in munich docketed you've cold on the e.u. to strengthen ties with asian countries including china why do you think this is so important right now so 1st of all with emergence of double benefit chains age of became really important in the whole global production especially in europe many final goods rely heavily on asian intermediates and therefore we gain significantly if we manage to agree to use trade costs with asia with respect to china i think the european union has a high interest in strengthening the ties especially because china is such as such as a large country and therefore a large market also for european firms but however i also think that the european union has does not want to strengthen the ties with china at any price so there are a couple of non-negotiable for the european union for example the protection of intellectual property rights and so before these are solved i don't think we will see that much of a strengthening there i'd like to pick up on some of the you said that night chi

calls lawyers for creation or training centers which they say are designed to improve the economic opportunities of the wages engine john a trader just toss sensitive is china to international pressure over human rights and is this round likely them to escalate even further do you think. we'll have to watch that closely the last time we saw this kind of concerted effort from europe was back in 1989 after the chenin square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters here in beijing we had the european council at the time slap on sanctions on china as well as the u.s. and those were quite damaging to china at the time because be after meant that 30 years ago china was quite a different country much weaker politically and economically but still there are sanctions seem to have very little or no influence on china's behavior internally so now that china is much more powerful the 2nd largest country 2nd largest economy in the world it's difficult to say how those those sanctions might play a role in influencing china's behavior and in fact they jing has said that it will double down and protect what it considers its core interests what it does seem to be influencing though is china's

centers something beijing strongly denies claiming the camps are for real education and to end combat terrorism some right says nowadays this is how to politics. international sanctions or in other words american launched economic weapons and it's growing over countries that washington doesn't like having something of a purple power new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken now in brussels on the heels of concerted sanctions against top officials blamed for the moslems in china's western province and we've had these u.s. president joe biden has made his 1st major move against russia has imposed sanctions on russian officials and businesses those over the jailing in the lead poisoning of kremlin critic alexina valmy we got these rumbling on to after the reported poisoning of opposition politician alex enough army many demanded a heart to the construction of the north stream too so despite the fact that sanctions usually cause more misery to the populations of the countries they're aimed at rather than the governments just ask the venezuelans or the iraqis or the rain ians or the cubans it is a long list they're still normally sold as being for humanitarian reasons which is why you always get those sanctions ag