response to actions by the countries such as china. economic coercion, so things like imposing trade barriers on european exports to china, in response to these issues. that is the kind of area, and allows the eu to work together, rather than country by country. i guess the question is, will the eu, because it is still a political decision to take action in response to china, or other countries, and i think that remains to be seen. there are different interests here. for example, germany still has very strong trade and investment links with china. and has been lenient against the toughest stance. she said the eu against the toughest stance. she said the eu need to define its future relationship with china in areas like quantum computing, robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? i robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? robotics, ai. where will that relationshi no? ~ , ., relationship go? i think there s an emhas
[ gunshots ] police tackled the gunman. now described by police as a 41-year-old unemployed man. police say this man has admitted to the shooting. state broadcaster nhk is quoting police who said that he used a homemade gun. we ll take you live to tokyo for updates in a moment. what a shock for that country, for the world. right now here at home, former white house counsel pat cipollone is on capitol hill for closed door testimony today, speaking to the january 6th select committee. we are watching that closely. first, our top story japan s former prime minister shinzo abe, the longest serving prime minister, assassinated during a campaign speech. cnn senior correspondent will ripley joins us now from taipei, taiwan. the circumstances of this particularly in a country with so few instances of gun violence just shocking. what more do we know about the shooter and the circumstances? reporter: yeah. you re talking about a country with half the population of the unite
robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? i robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? robotics, ai. where will that relationship go? robotics, ai. where will that relationshi no? ~ , ., relationship go? i think there s an emhasis relationship go? i think there s an emphasis in relationship go? i think there s an emphasis in europe, relationship go? i think there s an emphasis in europe, as relationship go? i think there s an emphasis in europe, as well- relationship go? i think there s an emphasis in europe, as well as i emphasis in europe, as well as elsewhere in the world, and greater economic security, which means not being dependent on other countries for critical areas, so that includes the ai, the electronics. it also includes things like, she was citing data such as the eu is 97% dependent on china for the pm. obviously, your plays a great importance on sustainability, green energy, electric vehicles. but in order for the eu to have a secure industrial product
people are finding it very much hard to digest the reality. i think it s very much an isolated event conducted by very much an isolated person. nonetheless, that isolated incident killed one of the most transformative leaders of the japanese history. his relationship with the u.s., with u.s. presidents through multiple presidents, bush, obama, trump, different parties, very different american presidents in that role, but maintaining a strong alliance and arguably an increasingly important alliance given his view of the threat, the challenges from china and america s view of that threat. where does the u.s.-japan relationship go following his loss, and do those that follow him share his view of that alliance? i think if you look at the body language of japanese
president and the prime minister. we have to ask how deep the relationship go, russia is cautious of the power balance, it doesn t want to be this kind of oil exporter to china, and the ambulance of power is very much tipped in china s favour. if they have got things like similar ideas about authoritarianism and how to run their countries, i don t think putin can count on xi to share his world view. you can see that in the way that china responded to things like the annexation of crimea, they abstained on the un general assembly vote and also, its role in the conflict in ukraine and they have been cautious, used the kremlin language and not calling it a war. they recognised that the war benefits nobody and for china it scuppered a lot their economic plans which included ukraine, and then obviously there is i suppose the domestic problems which is a a lot of the russian media in the far east, in border regions close to