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policy—making principle — putting business first, not military power — well, suddenly it looked like weakness. chancellor olaf scholz promised dramatic change. my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, its great to be here. lets start with the war in ukraine. i think theres no doubt that putins invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to sa...

my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, its great to be here. lets start with the war in ukraine. i think theres no doubt that putins invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i dont think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we woul...

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Its not even... and the deal is not signed yet, by the way... ah, so you think it was a mistake? no, i dont think that. i think that you need to get your...question right, because its not selling part of the port, its selling part of that terminal. and that is something that almost all our european neighbours are doing. and so to frame that as selling off anything strategic to china is a bit overblown. and you have not been... well, ijust quoted you... ..i quoted you a senior official at the ger...

One of many terminals. and its the smaller terminal. and you know what... ..you know what a senior foreign office official in this country said of that? she said it disproportionately increases chinas strategic influence over german transport infrastructure. its not even... and the deal is not signed yet, by the way... ah, so you think it was a mistake? no, i dont think that. i think that you need to get your...question right, because its not selling part of the port, its selling part of that te...

So, are there more steps that we can take? absolutely, and tomorrow the g7 will announce a new quite powerful round of sanctions, including aimed at countries that are trying to back fill the products that are denied them from these sanctions. so, you will see as time goes on the continued erosion of the quality and capacity of the russian economy, even as vladimir putin races to spend money in an effort to prop it up. >> lets now talk about china. we have a another audience member whos here in ...

That the people get fired, that they get prosecuted. and whats amazing about this last years at the same time people like oleg have been fighting in the trenches, the fight against corruption has been continuing. -- has been continue to pass laws on whistle blower protection and aid procurement, subhuman is more visible to ukrainians, but also to the rest of us. and that fight as they continue alongside the military fight. >> i want to bring in artem kulyk he is an interpreter for the internatio...

So, its something we watch very closely. president biden has a simple message to send when he talks to president xi. china should not be supporting the russian war effort, because the russian war effort is all about trying to destroy and subjugate in neighbor, in violation of every principle of human decency and every principle of international law. and that is a message that not only the united states is carrying, but countries around the world are carrying. as samantha said earlier, 141 countr...

In this country who believe that the east of ukraine is essentially russian territory. historically russian territory, theres a lot of people who believe that territory was infringed upon by the united states, by nato, and that somehow, this conflict now is one between russia and the west. and specifically, between russia and the united states. so, right now, theres no public pressure on vladimir putin to end this war. and it certainly does not seem as though hes inclined to do so anytime soon, ...

>> so, will they get fighter jets? >> when it comes to f-16s, this is important for the current phase of the war. this point is important for the current phase of the war. which is theyre about to mount a significant counteroffensive. from our perspective, f-16s are not the key capability for that offensive. it is the stuff that we are moving rapidly to the front lines now. f-16s are not a question for the short term fight. f-16s our question for the long term defense of ukraine. and thats a con...