well on this let's speak to gabriele felber my his president of the calle institute for the world economy here in germany thanks a lot for joining us so the german government has been pretty clear in its criticism of. certain chinese policies the treatment of the weak on kong security law but how much clout germany actually having is it big enough trading partner to make a difference. yes the tyranny is big trading china is also a technology partner it has grown in its importance because of course the united states is decoupling from china so indeed germany has clout in this relationship and is an important factor in pushing china towards more risk of prosody and there was a more balanced relationship. and other european leaders have taught about the europe as a whole being a bit more self-confident in the face of china what's been lacking in the european approach that. well i think that's very easy is unity and you know we all know about the 16 plus one initiative china actively tries to drive a wedge between the european countries of course. is much more exposed to the chinese economy t

and earlier we asked gabriele felber meyer president of the kill institute of the world economy just how meaningful economic sanctions from the e.u. would be without the u.s. on board but without the u.s. on board it's very difficult to impose sanctions and to make them effective in particular because of course the growth rate is the dollar still without the u.s. sanctions would be very difficult and if we do see a large provisions act against paris that it through is a result of. the past experience large lucia's you something but it was probably late. and international financial markets like you go alone then the chances of success are i'm sorry to say that. there let's go now to latin america where cuba is soon expected to unify its 2 domestic currencies or trying to manage the exchange rate with a 3rd currency using the u.s. dollar for many cubans with savings in regular pesos and plenty of experience with inflation it's all that worrying. queues outside banks in along these days government plans to unify the country's 2 currencies keeping the regular peso but eliminating the con

and earlier we asked gabriele felber meyer president of the kill institute of the world economy just how meaningful economic sanctions from the e.u. would be without the u.s. on board because of the u.s. the board's very difficult to impose sanctions and to make them effective in particular because of course the growth rate is the dollar still without us those sanctions would be very difficult and we do see a large provisions act against patches that do is result of. years large lucia's something. related. to national financial markets like you go alone then the chances of success are i'm sorry to say that. there let's go now to latin america where cuba is expected to unify its 2 domestic currencies or trying to manage the exchange rate with a 3rd currency using the u.s. dollar for many cubans with savings in regular pesos and plenty of experience with inflation it's all that worrying. queues outside banks in along these days the government plans to unify the country's 2 currencies keeping the regular peso but eliminating the convertible peso of course much uncertainty. when they sai