laws marco polo. and was a. road not all the. european going to china models so there was this delegation of i didn't it was china camming to europe and to visit and we have also to remember there was a lot of debate the need at the time of the i mean that can be accused to be an anti utopian as you would know for sure but for the role that the u.s. played they continued to play when there was in the past desist to open an agreement before opening the port of does to cheney's i seem to test to be managed and understood you know european framework and sound. have to be criticised for. my government has done because i'm not so being put into the bed with the parliament that is not open and to document such a debate and a public debate but in any case in the agreement the deity felt too deep to deal frame. of the relation with china he's very open these that he is very key and so is an ongoing debate i think that we have to find a way to cooperate with china well let me stop you right here we have to take a very short break now but

and so merchants like marco polo set off to search for spices and silk and incense and other luxury products. they traveled the world they were followed by missionaries and sometimes by warriors. and then came the artists thinkers and explorers so they all fueled each other hoping to transcend their own horizons and what we want to. lisp in. school says he three year old christopher columbus was just hours away from his life's dream coming true. he had an audience with the portuguese king john the second columbus was a professional seafarer from genoa was profound knowledge of mathematics and could talk a fee and a passionate defender of aristotle's belief that asia could be reached in just a few days by sailing west from europe. the ancient scholars had estimated that europe and asia covered roughly half of the earth succumb france but columbus believed that eurasia was much bigger than that. in fact eurasia only makes up around a third. columbus also believed the earth was very much smaller than it really is only half its actual size he thought the western reach of china and india was four

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tom: marco polo came out of harry's bar and wandered off to china. the symbolism and that we see china courting it away? mr. padoan: china was the great empire before venice was built, so it is history coming back to some extent. we have to separate two things, the economic incentives for italian and european firms to strike agreements and contracts with chinese counterparts and the other thing is the political leaning of a memorandum of understanding that has been signed in italy by the italian government what the chinese authorities, felt looking for what needs to be done, a european agreement. behindis still lagging in defining a global strategy and this is showing a lot of the weakness that europe is going through. francine: we have not even talked about the banks. should unicredit by deutsche bank? bank take that much risk on? mr. padoan: unicredit has been with some scrutiny, pursued the policy of diversification and become more european and less nation based. this is good for the italian economy also. in terms of unicredit looking at german ba