planet is about to get a little crowded 3 separate unmanned missions to mars launched by the united states china and the united arab emirates will all reach mars this month the 1st one to enter mars orbit will be the probe later today sent by the. new air of space exploration for the gulf nation amal which means hope will spend 687 days there that's the period equivalent to one year on mars the probe will monitor weather patterns on mars and it will also help the u.a.e. establish itself as a technology hub of the future so let's take a deeper look into space with claire jolly she's the head of the space forum at the organization for economic cooperation and development she joins me from paris welcome to d.w. clare so 3 mars missions are underway what do these countries get out of sending these probes to mars. thank you thank you very much for having me. here he said you are really looking at the economic angle. winning in space activities and definitely this nations are looking at space exploration for a number of reasons to be clear and we heard that just before and terms of science . in order

on people's mind and i'm thinking of michael right here you know this is just a china does not threaten the united states militarily it doesn't but china does threaten american hegemony and for 75 years the united states has gotten used to of its hedging monic role in the world and it's being challenged it's not a challenge militarily it's being challenged in almost every other respect and this is something that washington elites cannot stand and and you know i would even go as far as to say is that this is not this cannot be comprehended because of american exceptionalism and that is the biggest barrier in understanding the rights of other great powers this is you know since time immemorial right powers rights and powers fall ok but no one power is hedge of money forever michael no i agree with that and i think united states still wants to it has its it has actually increased and now has shifted from the middle east attention to to the far east and they end up the suffix region now because it seems that that's where the future of conflict is going to be consequently it will be using that freedom of navi

united states too. they describe the southeast asian views of china. t can almost apply to the united states and exponentially so over the last four years. take a look at the annual survey, we are too soon. this revealed the deterioration plummeting of the american reputation across the region in the last four years. there's a lot genuine concern about trump's policies. the islamohphobia, dysfunction of american democracy, systemic racism, the inequality in the united states, the me first -- a lot of issues make southeast asians ring their hands about america too right after they finish - very similar kind of anxieties. southeast asians expect and hope for more in the us. there is a reference of our of respect and cultural ties that goes way back in time that i argue in the book i did not find with regard to china. the us has a lot of repair work to do. a lot of healing to do across the atlantic, european allies who have it to do in southeast asia or elsewhere and in the most recent book, there's a deep reservoir of goodwill and respect for the united s

europeans believe that they can remain neutral in any growing rivalry between the united states and china and sort of have equally good relations with beijing and washington and at the same time expect the united states to be the 1st responder whenever anything happens in europe i think they're living in a dream world as we heard earlier donald trump scorn to europeans as freeloaders and here in europe that has shaken trust caps permanently now if europeans look at the transatlantic alliance that is strongly agree of course that that word can. and europeans need to build up their own research and their own strategies to be able to act in a more independent right to death row so to trumpet ministration added to feast the united states has become a fundamentally unstable a power that allies can never again depend on in quite the way this brings us to the biggest question facing america's place in the world right now how can it expect it's allies to follow it wholeheartedly if they fear it could be on the brink of disaster itself ultimately that means that joe biden success or failure of hop

talking of china this week statistics agency you're a start an ounce that china has overtaken the united states as the e.u.'s biggest trading partner blocs trade volume with china reached 586000000000 euros last year now that's compared to 555000000000 with the united states consumption in china is growing fast and that also drives sales of european products. sold nearly $775000.00 vehicles in china last year twice as many as they sold in the u.s. during that period v.w. sells almost one in 2 of its cars in the people's republic for years china has been the most important car sales market in the world but now the country has also become the e.u. use most important trading partner overall. according to euro stat european countries shipped nearly 203000000000. rose to china last year in addition to cause this included machinery and agricultural products like pork china meanwhile shipped 384000000000 euros worth of goods to the e.u. including computers clothing and medical products like facemasks that leaves the e.u. with a trade deficit with china amounting to 181000000000 euros. china is current

europeans believe that they can remain neutral in any growing rivalry between the united states and china and sort of have equally good relations with beijing and washington and at the same time expect the united states to be the 1st responder whenever anything happens in europe i think they're living in a dream world as we heard earlier donald trump scorn to europeans as freeloaders and here in europe that has shaken trust caps common interest and now if europeans look at the transatlantic alliance that is strong a degree of caution and that words. and europeans need to build up their own research and their own strategies to be able to act in a more independent right to death race or to trumpet ministration attitude feeds the united states has become a fundamentally unstable a power that allies can never again depend on in coins. this brings us to the biggest question facing america's place in the world right now how can it expect allies to follow it wholeheartedly if they fear it could be on the brink of disaster itself ultimately that means that joe biden successful failure at home wil

organization now biden has certainly used a less shrill tone when talking about china however at this point it seems like the united states and the united kingdom are continuing to push the idea that china is not blameless in the pandemic and somehow china is to blame they are not using some of the extreme allegations and tones we heard from the trumpet ministration but the narrative that china is to blame for coded in china should be held responsible for it that narrative seems very well alive the biden ministration continues to push the notion that china is to blame we've got u.k. officials backing up their words so while some of the harsh rhetoric and shrill words of the trumpet ministration have not been continued we are continuing to see a narrative that is hostile to china coming from washington and from london. one china expert joseph gregory mahoney believes the origin of the pandemic will remain a political issue for some time. well it's absolutely the case the united states hyper politicized the pandemic coming out now it encourages unfounded and anti-scientific conspiracy theories demonize china and withdrew fr

that will help both of us because the truth of it is that 2020 was a year in which both the united states and china suffered economically from the trade wars and the tariffs but the united states as china war and suffered more and there's a lesson to be learned there that we probably are better off making a lot of live and let live to deal with the chinese give them what they need if they give us what we need because the alternative is very very unsuccessful and it looks even scarier when you remember the trade wars and behavior like that as a nasty historical habit of becoming political when military. bent to professor wolf's points here china's actually been reportedly stockpiling semiconductor chips to combat the u.s. technology ban and that that's a fallout from exactly what he just talked about there what do we know about them actually stockpiling these chips. yet was kind of interesting about this is what was the old adage necessity is the mother of invention and i think that's some of what we're seeing here look when the technology ban was really pushed by the top administration in the last

next 10 years or so and there's been a lot of talk about as china begins to equal the power both militarily and economically of the united states that there's a very grave risk of conflict and that in managing that relationship both china and the united states might be inclined to try and form kind of blocks around them of allies like we saw in the 20th century cold war and in fact joe biden has been talking about trying to rally denmark received behind a common approach to dealing with china as he begins his administration so you could really interpret this is a bit of a warning shot from these leaders saying don't go too far down that road of trying to divide the world between democracies for example and or thora tearing countries there are things that the whole world needs to work on and that's going to be taken as interesting reading i think in the white has of the moment as they prepare to kind of calibrate their approach to china and think about how much support they can actually expects particularly from european allies as they deal with beijing thank you for that richard walker do w. chief international editor. take a l

more recently, china directed its energy and policies towards beating the united states and like-minded countries on all leading technologies in the 21st century. when i say china, eileen the chinese government and communist party. the american people have nothing against the chinese people. i've made no secret of america's failure of the chinese government accountable and that's been a failure of both parties in the past. after another tough call, we're not much closer to reining in on their behavior and we were four years ago. that's why yesterday i asked the chairs and members of relative senate committee to become legislation to enable united states to keep china and create american jobs and the endless frontier act. this is a bipartisanat legislatn that senator young and i have sponsored and drafted together as well. the national client science foundation and department of commerce to advance americanrc innovation in a number of critical technology. we must also have significant investment emergency appropriation rebuild capacity of the u.s. semiconductor industries, this is a bipa

it dies there are some complications at least between the united states and china there's a law in the united states that were strikes cooperation between nasa and the chinese space program but china does share and distribute that data with other scientists are on the world and there is a little bit of collaboration between nasa and china and has been and what their motivations and hopefully we can use these new side missions to just keep growing that relationship and cooperation between the 2 nations so who runs the know it's a weird question but it's cite china all the u.s. discovers valuable minerals of that and decide they want to exploit them does anyone else get a say or does become like the sort of like the wild west who has got the biggest guns gets to keep as much as they can carry it a little bit wild west there is a. treaty from the united nations in 967 called the outer space treaty which kind of lets it's kind of finders keepers so if you find materials i a celestial body you can keep it send it back to your you know your whole nation to study but other than that it's pret

shift the burden of the international nuclear disarmament politics away from the united states and onto russia and china, president biden should declare the united states willingness to reduce nuclear weapons to the lowest level russia will accept with parallel limits by china. globally, they u.s. could demonstrate that it takes the disarmament obligations of the treaty seriously by designing a verifiable new clear disarmament regime to encompass all states. the u.s. should invite international discussion and debate of the prototype and ask other nuclear arms states to do a similar presentation of model disarmament regimes. no other nuclear arms state has offered such a model and this is one reason why international debates on nuclear disarmament at official and unofficial levels are often light on details. i have on the provided headlines and subheadings of our report and of these issues. the report is 105 pages, so i assure you there is plenty of analysis and argumentation for those who want more. in the meantime, we welcome comments, questions, and critiques here and by email and by other means in th

yeah you know he talks about extreme competition being the driver between china and the united states the problem with that statement you know he said that the u.s. is going to be very tough because he mentions specifically president geo over in china referring to president g. as being very tough and very bright but he also said this he says he does not have a democratic small d. bone in his body right and we all know that's absolutely true but the reality is what biden's talking about is competing with china and being competitive with china this is totally in agreement there but the problem is that biden did not talk about the issue of whether or not we can compete on a level playing field that has been the argument that's been made certainly was made over the last 4 years by the trumpet ministration the former administration that was and how are they essentially were saying china does not have a level playing field with the rest of the world therefore we have to level the playing field in order to compete by didn't really talk about that the president this time did not say much abou

members of our relevant senate committees to begin work on legislation to enable the united states to outcompete china and create american jobs. at the core of this effort will be the endless frontier act. this is bipartisan legislation that senator young and i have sponsored, have drafted together over a year ago that would surge resources into the national science foundation and the department of commerce to advance american innovation in a number of critical technologies. we must also consider significant investments, even through emergency appropriations, to rebuild the capacity of the u.s. semicon semiconductor industry, a bipartisan effort that senators cot ton and warren joined to replace the original legislation in the defense bill. right now semicongress -- semiconducting legislation is a dangerous weak spot. this is a technology the united states created. we ought to be leading the world in. the same goes for building out 5g, the next generation telecommunications network. there is bipartisan interest on both these issues. overall, the new legislation must achieve three goals. one, boost ame

china greater dependencies. him. more ip theft and the population in the united states very divided as we've noted but all throughout the population and in the halls of congress there is one thing that continues to unite and that is the question of how do we deal with china china is a real systemic conflict so that is one thing the one. key policy issue around which america can unite this point in time that is it's something that i think most americans and most people in washington see as something from from the fluff to the right as as a real challenge and something that needs to be taken on then one difference i would say between biden and trump is biden says we want to take it on with allies with like minded partners because this isn't a conflict about countries necessarily or people this is a conflict of ideologies let's bring in sujit and joe biden and she recently spoke at length or about 2 hours in fact and it was a meeting where we're told that they were they were adults on most issues joe biden came out afterwards and said and i thought it was an extraordinary statement china will eat our lunch what did you

concept is also about ensuring we have a strong european pillar not a european pillow as the united states looks to china as its long term strategic rival and so the united states does not have the capacity to deter russia or contain iran protect global commons and deal with a rising china led by the chinese communist party so i think the alliance focusing on its core mission of deterrence and defense in europe is really important. retired u.s. general there ben hodges well let's catch up on some of the developments in the corona virus pandemic japan has begun innoculating health workers after approving the 1st vaccine there the country's slow rollout raises questions as to whether it will be ready to host the olympics this summer south africa says it will offer its doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to the african union the country suspended the use of the vaccine after a study found it failed to prevent illness caused by the variant of the crown of fire was 1st identified in south africa meanwhile the 1st batch of johnson and johnson vaccines has arrived in south africa happened on tuesday the new numbe

china greater dependencies. more ip theft and the population in the united states very divided as we've noted but all throughout the population and in the halls of congress there is one thing that continues to unite and that is the question of how do we deal with china china is a real systemic conflict so that is one thing the one. key policy issue around which america can unite this point in time that is it's something that i think most americans and most people in washington see as something from from the fluff to the right as as a real challenge and something that needs to be taken on then one difference i would say between biden and trump is biden says we want to take it on with allies with like minded partners because this isn't a conflict about countries necessarily or people this is a conflict of ideologies let's bring in sujit and joe biden and she recently spoke at length or about 2 hours in fact and it was a meeting where we're told that they were they were adults on most issues but joe biden came out afterwards and said and i thought it was an extraordinary statement china will eat our lunch what did

china greater dependencies. more ip theft and the population in the united states very divided as we've noted but all throughout the population and in the halls of congress there is one thing that continues to unite and that is the question of how do we deal with china china is a real systemic conflict so that is one thing the one. key policy issue around which america can unite this point in time that is it's something that i think most americans and most people in washington see as something from from the fluff to the right as as a real challenge and something that needs to be taken on then one difference i would say between biden and trump is biden says we want to take it on with allies with like minded partners because this isn't a conflict about countries necessarily or people this is a conflict of ideologies let's bring in sujit and joe biden and she jinping recently spoke at length or about 2 hours in fact and it was a meeting where we're told that they were they were adults on most issues joe biden came out afterwards and said and i thought it was an extraordinary statement china will eat our lunch what

that china has accused the united states of damage. in the coronavirus pandemic there are erupted over the findings of a recent world health organization probe into the origins of the virus in china washington is calling for more transparency from beijing and is supported by the u.k. kind of reports. well we've got the scientific community trying to find out the origins of the global coded 19 pandemic so team from the world health organization was dispatched to go to war han however at this point we've got the biden and ministration questioning those findings and washington is saying they read politics into this here's what we heard we have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the coded nine's investigation were communicate and questions about the proofs is used to reach them now you'll recall that donald trump had pulled the united states out of the world health organization but when biden assumed office the new administration in washington d.c. returned the united states to the world health organization but it se

china. the united states is taking a much more direct approach to china.you think the european deal struck with china will satisfy those leaders and aggregates around the world, and is that going to put europe and the united states with some of those other countries in two different arenas? guntram: i think the deal is one thing. what is much more important is what the e.u. does with the deal and whether it will name the problems it china more strongly and use international pressure to try to have an influence on china. i was happy to see emmanuel macron very clearly calling out the human rights issues in china. i really think that is what also a german chancellor should be doing. in that sense, i am disappointed that the german chancellor takes too weak of a stance against china. but we also have to find a way of coexisting with china. china is not going to disappear. china is economically important. we have to find ways of economically engaging but at the same time, putting pressure on china when it comes to human rights issues or climate policy issues a

donald trump understood this and was standing up for the united states because china is trying to cancelstates of america. china and big tech have a cozy relationship. and they have been allowing the chinese communist party to spew all of their information. i can't find anywhere that they have been censored, blocked, or banned. big tech is aiding and abetting the chinese communist party in their push for global dominance, and we are going to have to stand against it. so the question is -- what are we going to do about it? my question to you is -- are you all ready to fight back? against big tech, against big media, against censorship? are you ready to fight? [applause] that is great. what we have is the virtual protection agenda. let's start with online privacy. big tech -- this is what we will say, you cannot threat, follow, listen, data mine, or share your information with a third party without getting your explicit consent. it is your privacy. when it comes to section 230, and you have heard a lot about section 230 when it comes to censorship, they cannot come in and remove you, remov

china greater dependencies. more ip theft and the population in the united states very divided as we've noted all throughout the population and in the halls of congress there is one thing that continues to unite and that is the question of how do we deal with china china is a real systemic conflict so that is one thing the one. key policy issue around which america can unite this point in time that is it's something that i think most americans and most people in washington see as something from from the fluff to the right as as a real challenge and something that needs to be taken on then one difference i would say between biden and trump is biden says we want to take it on with allies with like minded partners because this isn't a conflict about countries necessarily or people this is a conflict of ideologies let's bring in sujit and joe biden and she recently spoke at length about 2 hours in fact and it was a meeting where we're told that they were they were adults on most issues joe biden came out afterwards and said and i thought it was an extraordinary statement china will eat our lunch what did you make of

china. i think that is part and parcel of a tougher relationship that exists between europe and the united statestween china and the united states. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ guy: we are wrapping up the thursday session in europe so let's look at where we are. we are up by around 4/10 of 1%. a much more positive session today despite a fairly weak legacy coming out of the asian session. performance coming through from the dax -- the ftse, the dax and the cac all are having a relatively good day but the dax is outperforming and one of the reasons for that is added assets had a good day and it's the percentage best performer. think about what is happening in china. it will be interesting to see if some brands do well during the chinese lunar new year to be a really big sales story, particular you people are not traveling in china the way they did. looking at the german yield, it's interesting today and were bearing in mind. the yield is going back down again today and despite a relatively optimistic outlook from the european commission. pay attention to the bund. are we starting to top out? it's fairly

you believe he was forced to confess >> i just can't fathom >> reporter: last month the united states accused china of genocide >> genocide is committed against the uighurs. >> reporter: chan denies racial cleansing, and calling forced sterilization nonsense >> this mother is only allowed to see her daughter once a week. >> reporter: tell me that it is not brutal to take her daughter away from her when her father just died. >> she's been released and with her daughter she has a job. nbc news had not been able to verify that. >> reporter: rahan says her brother is no terrorists lester >>> a former ohio police officer charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed black man, andre hill. the video is disturbing rorter: the moment former officer, adam coy, shot and killed andre hill in a friend's garage the police veteran was charged with murder. today hill's family relieved but not fully satisfied. >> adam coy messed with the wrong family and his family is not backing down we are making sure all convictions happen >> reporter: the former officer is not guilty and coy and hill interacted what seen o

europeans believe that they can remain neutral in any growing rivalry between the united states and chinaand sort of have equally good relations with beijing and washington and at the same time expect the united states to be the 1st responder whenever anything happens in europe i think they're living in a dream world as we heard earlier donald trump scorn to europeans as freeloaders and here in europe that has shaken trust caps permanently and now if europeans look at the transatlantic alliance that is strong and ukraine of course and that word. and europeans need to build up their own research and their own strategies to be able to act and a more independent right to death throws the trumpet ministration added to fears the united states has become a fundamentally unstable a power that allies can never again depend on in quite. this brings us to the biggest question facing america's place in the world right now how can it expect its allies to follow it wholeheartedly if they fear it could be on the brink of disaster itself ultimately that means that joe biden success or failure at home wi

the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it but they're a puppet of jonah well the w.h.o. finally has a team sent there they're doing this investigation how we got any closer to figuring out the origins of carbon 1000 then really you know if we talk about bigger picture right that the scientific community is trying to find out the origins of this virus the source of this corona virus and that's why they sent this mission to to the chinese who a province where the virus was 1st detected in 2019 but the probe didn't give us a lot right away i mean the experts came only to one conclusion conclusion which is really important in the light of this ongoing spat between the u.s. and china and that is that the virus did not originate in a chinese lab and that it probably transmitted from animals presumably bats. to humans so again this is not exactly a revelation and we're still far from understanding the roots of the pandemic i guess what this story has shown to us is that the issue itself is hi

labeling russia as and then we have the united states that it is determined to destroy the power and influence of the united states and its allies and when it comes to china 1. it's a much more much softer approach you know china is a competitor. and why yes he does talk about own car in the endzone the best i don't place china as just 8. of the epic and. it's really interesting here is that it seems to me and you and i are not as many. as russia this is this is russia gate absolutely leading into warm policy because he's in this is a domestic issue in the united states mint and then when china will you have the n.b.a. and you have disney and it's so much more complicated because his comments about china were i mean not just buzzy it was muddled i mean i really didn't know what kind you are going to make me go back to market but this is an administration that is makes listen wait time russia and china gather as competitors adversaries even enemies in the case of russia this is something and in an incoming administration is never done before go ahead yes i mean the sudden a big contrast with the time of obama is of course there is no cause for the reset so

two-hour call with xi jinping yesterday, he is now warning china is making serious advancements in transportation advantage over united statesing to -- eat our lunch? come on man they are not that folks, guess what they are not competition for us. >> i was on the phone two straight hours with xi jinping. if we don't get moving they are going to eat our lunch. >> what is your reaction to this do you think biden is -- uh is changing tuna on china or not we have to wait to see what policy looks like obviously,. >> so far i haven't been given promising since he rescinded last minute order from trump administration to monitor china's meddling with money in u.s. universities, i don't know why it took so long for trump administration to do that i can't imagine why joe biden would possibly want to get rid of it, it is worth keeping close eye who he puts in to oversees technology in department of commerce to try to get idea is he going to be hawkish on china as some in his administration are oar say come on man come on man they are not bad guys as we heard earlier this year at some other appointments, leaning towards. >> liz? >> yeah

labeling russia as and then we have the united states that it is determined to destroy the power and influence of the united states and its allies and when it comes to china. it's a much more or much softer approach you know china is a competitor. and why yes he does talk about hong kong and the ins on the past he identifies china as just a competitor of the moon and georgia you don't think it's really interesting here is that it seems to me and you and i have known about this many times and it has russia this is this is russia gate absent leading into boerum policy because he's and this is a domestic issue in the united states now and then with china will you have the n.b.a. and you have disney and it's so much more complicated because he has comments about china where i mean not this was the it was muddled i mean i really didn't know what kind you. want to make let me go back to mark your. this is an administration that is makes listen wait time russia and china gather as competitors abizaid even enemies in the case of russia this is something and an incoming administration has never done before go ahead yes i mean the certainly big contrast with the ti

this sort of multilateral approach is in confronting china that is one area where the united states is identified that china is one of its main competitors and as a result there are some grave concerns the united states has with respect to human rights regarding china intellectual property theft and other issues so this is where the united states feels it's best to engage and so that's why the white house press secretary says that this is the message that the president will be delivering as he speaks to world leaders. and also this is an issue iran's nuclear deal issue those specs it's come up both in the g. 7 meeting as well as that munich security conference what kind of line do we expect the bible ministrations to take home what we've already seen a very important 1st step being taken by the united states as of thursday it had said that his secretary of state would be participating in the p 5 plus one meeting with iran this is certainly a stark contrast to the actions we saw under donald trump the other thing that we've seen is this kind of olive branch be extended by the united sta

how do you view the growing imbalance of naval forces and missile systems between the united states and china? >> senator, i first believe the united states must have capable sea power. it must have a qualitative advantage over adversaries in order to achieve, protect its interest and advance its interest. i do want to just say as an aside that i thank this committee and the house armed services committee for supporting a deterrence initiative. if confirmed that is a tool very helpful in building out some initiatives and capabilities in this area. my understanding from the outside, i'm not privy to the information that is available were i to be confirmed is that the chinese have, of course, grown out the capacity of their navy and their missile capability based in different domains, land-based, sea-based. and that's very worrisome trend line. i'm concerned about the survivability of our naval forces and making sure we have them positioned and have a concept for operating them that can be a war-winning strategy. >> okay, the chairman had a conversation with you about the national defense strat