north is struggling with unusually high temperatures. a new law has given the german government power to block takeovers of german companies like life by foreign firms if they encroach on national security the economy ministry had pressed for a veto because life makes tools for the aerospace industry. as it became obvious berlin would reject the deal the chinese withdrew their bid so life remains in german hands last week the german government also prevent the china state great corporation from taking a twenty percent holding electricity grid operator fifty hertz instead it asked state owned k. of your bank to buy up the stake berlin was an easy about handing a chinese state company a say in the country's power grid public infrastructure it just too critical to be in the hands of a foreign company. but chinese businesses feel unfairly singled out.