Russia unfortunately even sometimes countries that we are more close to so germany is in the central position geographically in europe its the most important economy we are not you know projecting military problem so we are we need to rely on the willingness and ability to apply by those rules and thats what we are trying so you cannot cut off the dialogue with russia but you need to be very clear in that and thats what we are lets talk about another country where you have a lot of dialogue we have to mention lets go to china now also in the news for its continued infringement of human rights and rule of law similar to russia in a speech before the parliament on september 10th you said the following human rights are a central element of our china policy hows that working out for the prodemocracy protesters in hong kong what we are. And i hope that im not going no its not im not intending to to criticize any of our European Partners but to really think sometimes. We need as a government to explain more what we are doing as think that germany is maybe the only relevant country right now that is addressing human rights issues with china on every high level meetings that we are having sometimes we do that publicly sometimes dont we dont do that publicly because were talking about individual cases we havent established human rights dialogue and and quite frankly we tried to celebrate you would china some of the in order to generate more european unity also on human rights but how but until about a message that you are sending that you might have the dialogue but the message the real message that youre sending how can china really believe that you are serious on human rights when in every state visit you show up with a huge business delegation and id just like to go to the last one with the german chancellor Angela Merkel that was in september of 2019 where amid the crackdown on the prodemocracy protesters in hong kong she sat along the tinies premier and in her visit it was crowned by overseeing the signing of 13 business deals between german and chinese executives in the great hall of the people in Tiananmen Square is a trade off for human rights because thats what it looks like i dont think that it looks like that i dont see that this is a contradiction i mean if if if the policy would be to completely exclude trial from Political Landscape and from our political thinking. Well i think we are not going to serve our interests and i am very concerned that this is going to happen if we are live listening to some of the very inflammatory rhetoric right now we need to wipe falling back into the logic of a new cold war but you ask about the effectiveness of our policies and i can tell you that there are many cases and some are prominent cases like the widow of the Nobel Prize Winner who came into freedom and could leave the country because of very very high level interventions from germany and their back not always the case theyre there and id like to id like to bring in i just want to say is that there is. And i mean we cannot ignore that there is a temptation for many leaders around the world. Not to do that what were doing a from a government because they believe that if they dont address human rights issues that may be because owing to the stark honestly and thats not what were doing and im very proud of philosophically speaking when we look at your overall diplomatic strategy we have for example your economy minister saying just back in july in a conversation with politico he said i still believe in transformation through trade transformation through trade when it comes to china your own German Industry Association has come out and said they published a paper last year calling for a tougher approach to china their message was the wests strategy for opening tyner has failed you know this is a wake up call that what they have said is going to be the case of china isnt it isnt both outdated and naive to think youre going to have transformation theyre married one is not happening to make one comment because you were all really asking the system on the question of me and my boss cycle mars being members of to social democratic parties so i know youre trying to put me into responsibility for something well youre part of the government does that equate youre part of the government with your christian democratic partners are very i can tell you that. I think we had maybe a dictate where we were social democrats and christian quit liberal to the greens or whatever. May be too optimistic about the impact of our Economic Engagement on the ma christie and human rights i think this is very obvious china change that the that guiding policy of soft drink shopping so to bide your time never takes the lead that is over with risp presidency and thats why we are in the middle and thats why i welcome your questions we are in the middle of a debate how to readjust our policy and i think we need to defend or ok with stronger but we shouldnt cut out of our way ties with china you need allies to deal with china absolutely russia you absolutely do lets look at the state of your alliances right now the u. S. Is pulling 12000. 00 troops out of germany is reportedly because you didnt meet your defense spending also the nato 2 percent goal of g. D. P. For dispense spending what does that say about the state of your diplomacy that this announcement reportedly 1st of all caught you by surprise shouldnt you have seen it coming from the us up why he said they would well there would be consequences well look i mean. We dont believe that reducing troops in germany is an instrument to harm drug money or to castigate trueman those troops the few look carefully about what they are doing they are serving the interests of the United States armed forces and they are part of deterrence where not only germany is benefiting but europe us a whole so we had some problems to understand the logic behind that. But it is to know what the problems understand youre not spending 2 percent of g. D. P. Youre not on track to spending 2 percent of g. D. P. This is a commitment that you made to your allies at a nato summit in wales and 2014 in a commitment that if you dont appear to be intent on fulfilling that well the numbers of the appropriations that we made in terms of defense spending there are no secret there were known in washington so if they look at what were doing its clear that we are on that we are on track to quote you that we are massively increasing our defense spending but by the way not because somebody in the United States is demanding that from us but because we see that the world is changing that we talked about it russias getting more sort of we have conflicts in their own neighborhood so thats the reason why were doing this and so i think we cannot neglect that we have political differences that its a very you know i want some element of 3 years or 8 this is a unique style of the american president but the pacers of our relationship is stronger than but ultimately between us that mr alternately when we look at the big picture when we look at the broad picture when we look at the actions not just the talk but the actions that your government and your country is taking your adhering to deals and russia the north stream to project which is probably one of your what you want us to restart the what. We discussed im also you have you have a very robust trade relationship with china that is increasing countries where there are open human rights offenders. But youre not fulfilling your commitments to allies like nato for example when it comes to increase in defense spending is this really the way forward look for german diplomacy is this really what takes you into the next decades and beyond look we are late or so were doing this because of our own interest. Its german fighter plane its right now is that defining its a politics guys its german soldiers who are part of the very high already in their stride task was it a German Initiative that we took up and were going to build and you nato headquarters so nobody needs to to teach us about how important nato is and i tend to something sometimes our friends and allies i dont want to name countries here but sometimes friends said allies say simply is humans its a dream we would react in the way we do how how are we doing in this russian world were not going to be provoked. We did not cutting our dialogue and the networks that we have been building this is important for them so im im happy to take some blame there sometimes disappointment people sometimes have that strange ideas that its weakness not to respond in kind but we are the force that is keeping all of this together chairman minister of state nelson and thank you for joining us on conflicts and thank you so much. 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