he ws clifford. conan resident, china analyst to for thank you. now before heading to the g. 20 summit in indonesia, german chantelle, all of shells has been visiting vietnam and singapore to gauge opportunities for german business. there. germany wants to reduce its heavy dependency on china. mature political tensions earlier. my colleague richard walker, i spoke to z mense c o. rowland bush asking him whether it's time for german businesses to diversify. it depends on how you define, define it, if diversified cation means doing less than china, instead of doing more business and others, i don't believe this is the right thing to do. i think it's doing additionally more in other countries. the point is that if you will think about when you allocate and euro investment of a dollar investment and you added into an existing running machine on a big market, which is fast growing the returns faster than if you start in new in new areas, new markets so, but we have to acknowledge that resilience is all of our price. so therefore it is worthwhile invest

but they were definitely rivals ok. clifford conan, joining us with this news chunk same in has died the age of 96. thank you so much. now saying, and china authorities and gong shall have relaxed some anti cove. it measures following clashes between demonstrators and police and violent confrontation took place on wednesday morning. in the southern chinese city, video footage on social media shows protesters throwing rocks at security forces in protective suits. china's ruling communist party has said it will put resolutely crack down on infiltration and sabotaged by hostile forces. authorities have holstered police presences and major cities in an attempt to suppress further demonstrations. and earlier we spoke with journalist fab encroachment in beijing for more on those clashes in functional videos a seem to be from last night. it shows that residents were clutching with the police. the police, dressed in full helmet suits their very shield to protect themselves. the residents are throwing rocks at the police and you know those protests, we don't know the details, but they seem to

it's still deeper into that story with detail he's trying to rec, spoke like a conan who's following history closely. clifford, what can olaf shoulds germany's chance the hope to gain out of these talks with china that have been so criticized? well, i think the way he's thinking is to try and keep channels open, which in many ways is an admirable ambition. but the question is that how much has changed in the mean time and whether it's possible for to, to keep these channels of communication open, particularly when it seems to be coming against the back. a backdrop of the french, for example, or the u. s. saying, urging him not to go to loan at u. s. is still very annoyed about the sale of the steak to hamburg and you know, all the signs of germany 1st that are really kind of irritating the allies. so even though i believe, you know, on the, on the surface he has noble intentions in terms of keeping these channels open. i think he's facing a struggle in terms of actually realizing that one of the big criticisms is the timing of the trip. why did he have to go now? and this is one thing, i mean, this was flagge