weapons stroman weapons or u.k. made weapons but china has made great strides to prove its quality and over the past 510 years we have seen that given the increased amount of their weapons by other countries that is definitely increasing the quality of its weapons. i'm a little curious of the little percentage where china does sell to other countries does china like a lot of other countries use its arms sales as an extension of its foreign policy absolutely if we look at the main recipients is very much countries that are allies or offering people china or we can think of pakistan bangladesh myanmar as also these countries that are seen to have a list of friendly standpoint we've got regarding countries in europe or the u.s. so it's they're being used as some sort of game or station off china's reach around the region around the world 910 thank you very much. that's it for now head over to our website d.w. dot com for slash asia to view this show online and for other stories from the region we leave you with more pi

foreign ministers here in brussels later really welcomed the stroman initiative very much appreciate that political process has been started now and that there is a real chance that this process will improve the lives of the tickle you of the libyan civil populations who have been suffering under those 2 factions fighting if you listen closely to what the foreign minister said up on the wyvil but also on departure you could hear also some self-interest here for instance austria's a foreign minister made clear that there is a clear link to refugees who are using libya as a portal to get to europe and so improving situations there is also a way to stop those refugees and then italian prime minister. foreign minister to my all also made clear that terrorism is also a subject that motivates italy to look very carefully what can be done in libya all right so many e.u. countries have a vested interest in libya being a stable and peaceful country so what has the you planned on doing to assure that outcome. well foreign ministers remained rather tight lipped about what exactly they have been