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Just 3 weeks until election day in the United States this was supposed to be done will trump selection to lose despite the hundreds of thousands who have lost their lives to cohabit 19 well that all changed 2 weeks ago when the coronavirus turned the president positive his reelection chances negative tonight trump is once again campaigning once again denying the dangers of the virus and this time hes risking peoples lives in the process i bring golf in berlin this is the day. I think is on this because it is all political just to get so to make trump look that went through it now they say im i think the time is right i think its good he seriously on the other over some very young and a bit such very. Tired so if youre lucky before it goes were years ahead on vaccines and theyre going to be distributors sure im not going saturday i think work and all the time you got no postage stamp living in fear to come to us. Also coming up when the pandemic ingolf new york hope and help were dished out daily by Governor Andrew Cuomo his memoirs from that time are now in a new book including moments when some say the governor sounded and acted more like a president and i understand what the president is saying this is unsustainable that we close down the economy but if you ask the American People to choose. Whose between Public Health and the economy then its no contest. But to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with u. S. President trump on the campaign trail trying to make up for lost time and for a lost ground with just 20 days to go until the november 3rd election the numbers have never looked so dismal for president truong his democratic challenger joe biden is leading in the polls a lead of double digits it has been a rapid reversal for the president in the span of 2 weeks he has participated in a president ial debate labeled the worst in u. S. History he has tested positive for the coronavirus and spent time in the hospital only to return to the white house which is now a viral hot spot for a 74 year old man who was overweight and who test positive for the coronavirus the rule is lots of rest and quarantine for at least 14 days but not for President Trump he is again holding Campaign Rallies despite the all clear from his doctor the president is taking risks like never before risking his own health and the health of everyone around him. Back on the campaign trail after his own brush with a witness donald trump is no trying to revive his reelection fortunes. Tossed mosques from the stage at the fust of several events this week. Following attendee separation from his hardcore fans it appears absence makes the heart grow fonder. I went through it now they say im a mutant i can feel i feel so lucky. To see everyone. While the thought lingered sought to alleviate any concerns the tightly packed crowd to me have about catching the virus. And i said to my people we are going to take whatever the hell they gave me and we get it distributed around ospital said everyones going to have to. Go. Seemingly reinvigorated trump wrapped up the rally dancing with the crowd even as the tone jawed with a country in crisis. The contrast with democratic nominee joe biden couldnt have been stocker visited another battleground state one of several essentially distance events across ohio he attacked trumps handling of the pond damage thats Donald Trumps presidency 250000 dead because of crude experts say were likely to lose another 200000 people in the next few months unless we take some serious action and he doesnt know what hes doing all because this president s only worried about one thing the stock market he refused to follow the science its estimated we just warn of these mass nationally we save over 100000. 00 lives between now and the end of the year. Of the pandemic the people the patients and the president to discuss all of this as the u. S. Moves ever closer to election day on joined tonight by eric hes an epidemiologist and Health Economist at the harvard Chance School of Public Health and a senior fellow at the federation of american scientists in washington d c dr fighting its good to have you on the day i know that you havent personally examined or diagnosed the u. S. President but i would i would like to get your professional opinion here should the u. S. President be holding Campaign Rallies just a week after leaving the hospital where he was being treated for code 90. Yeah thats a fair question to be here what the c. D. C. Says typically a mild case is infectious script 10 days but your case is infectious for 10 to 20 days and the problem is trump was hospitalized you can say you was hospitalized caution but he was given debts and thats a zone which is only for severe patients according to c. D. C. You know your show so in any way you count it he was a severe case and he has definitely not hit 20 days now his doctor says hes tested negative on to answer tests but testing made about antigen test doesnt mean anything because its not meant to rule out and say that youre not infectious anymore so right now theres still a chance hes infectious that he should not be out there and yeah and you know that despite the fact that the president s own doctor has said you should sean conley have said that the president has tested negative for consecutive days so hes implying that the president then is no longer infectious but theres a trust issue with the white house isnt there. You know this absolute trust issue and often as you know though these letters all are never signed and all state released with the permission of donald trump the other issue is the testing name of consecutively using the rapid and that antigen test which the f. D. A. These emergency authorization for this approval says it is not to be used for ruling out whether someone is infectious in the negative test does not rule you out that youre not contagious anymore and youre not supposed to use it after 7 days of initial symptoms this is why using that test is not allowed and the culture test they are supposed to use they have not done whatsoever so they have not offered any actual proof altogether it is entirely way too risky but its part of true to form 2 turning you know flowering c. D. C. Rule so its still very worrisome and at the rally we saw yesterday in florida with the president we saw huge crowds some people with face mask others without very little social distancing isnt there mounting evidence that these rallies are turning into super spreading events. Yes there is lots and most of these rallies less than 10 percent 15 percent at most where mass and theres 0 to cincy and just today minnesota where he previously had rallies he found over 2 dozen cases linked to president ial route most of them linked to trumps rallies so too doesnt his thats a lot of cases and those are just the ones weve been able to track and trace so we know these events are so ready its coronavirus especially since these temperature at our monitors do not work and half of the infections may be innocent medics and thats why this fire is so are to contain what of what about the white house as a viral hotspot am i correct in assuming that anyone who has been inside the white house recently should be considered a possible coronavirus threat. Yeah thats a very good concern because the white house has been using a very very loose security protocol and its its looser and you can basically hop skip over a fence basically be as rapid tests which capture most cases but not all have been what they use and once you test negative which is not perfect if people been going without masks and this is a vinyl white house its had over 37 cases within just the primary orbits of the white house and the president alone in the last 2 weeks that is more than most many many countries with millions of people and that is why this white house epidemic is so insane but yet they refuse the c. D. C. Im blocked the c. D. C. From contact racing anyone and thats why its so frustrating im sure youve heard the news john johnson and johnson has suspended its vaccine trial because one of the patients became ill weve also got reports that eli lilly has suspended trials on an antibody treatment against code 19 this is how dr William Schaffner at vanderbilt framed the news take a listen this is Standard Operating Procedure it shows that the system is working it shows that people are being very careful on behalf of the volunteers and i think we need to not draw too many conclusions because as i say these are the sorts of things that can happen so dr if i go to get do you agree is there no reason to be alarmed by these 2 suspensions. You know these suspensions are typical and they are doing it out of abundance of caution because the if they were trying to russians they would basically keep on rolling people while they investigate right now theyre suspending roman while they investigate and again in these kind of trial the out with the want to do a full review of the medical record your outspokenness the sure cause of it and maybe exclude those kind of patients in the future but at the bottom line this is a good thing and normally if it happened with any other trials that countless thousands that happen every year you we when hear about weirs hearing about it because so this is normal and it is the abundantly cautious thing to do its not rushing this is the right thing to do this week the Health Minister here in germany said that germany will be able to begin to administer the vaccine in the 1st quarter of next year not for that to be possible he must be assuming that at least one vaccine will be successful that it will be safe and that it will get approval all within the next few months and is that wishful thinking. It is well this is why i dont want to count the eggs before they hatch chickens before the extension because the issue is there are sometimes vaccine efficacy and safety issues that come up and we want to know whether they work 1st and then that theyre safe before laying out the our timeline all the time or in general assuming everything runs smoothly could be fast and available for some limited amounts of my Emergency Health care workers but for the mass vaccination of the general population it wont be available until late spring early summer next year ok weve got about the middle that they were just asking you know the models say that we could be looking at maybe 200000 more deaths in the u. S. By early next year at the same time here in europe even here in germany where the pandemic has been somewhat well managed new infections are surging is there still time to prevent the worst Case Scenario from becoming reality yeah theres definitely time and the key thing is hopefully not relying on lots out long term but also not relying on her community we have to do Contact Tracing testing and mask Wearing Masks where it is the most efficient effective and distancing and if we have all these things that improve ventilation to prevent aerosol into our transmission i think we can prevent most of these deaths and what beauties are right dr Eric Feingold in joining us tonight from washington d. C. Dr we appreciate your time and your valuable insights its very important right now thank you thank you. The pandemic the corona virus threat and the Public Health crisis as we are seeing tonight this ordeal is far from over here in europe as well as the United States its not the time to publish your pandemic memoirs you might say but that is exactly what new york Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing the governor has just published a book that reviews his experiences during the early months of the outbreak the book american crisis leadership lessons from the kobe 1000 pandemic looks back at the situation in new york and the response of new york authorities cuomo goes through those Daily Press Briefings which he held on Live Television it was those briefings that led many in the us beyond new york to Start Talking about cuomo as president ial material as Firm Leadership earned him praise some of it backhanded one critic of the book says that the governor has a tendency to be tyrannical exactly what we need in a crisis like this pandemic or even across the atlantic here in europe many people tuned in every day for Governor Cuomo those updates as new york city and new york state became the worlds pandemic epicenter to date nearly half a 1000000 cases have been registered in the state and more than 30000 people have died most of them in new york city heres a look back at those daily briefings with new york Governor Andrew Cuomo at the height of the pandemic the increasing the number of cases continues. Unabated. As a matter of fact the rate of increase has gone up we need at a minimum an additional 30000. 00 ventilators you cannot buy them you cannot find them so we lost another 507. 00 new yorkers and those are not just very large numbers we see that every number is a face and a family and a brother and a sister and a mother and a father we control the baby. We apacs i thowt its coming down the other side that is good news if the data holds and if this trend holds. We are past the high point where those daily briefings became moments of media magic if you believe that jeff its good to see you again so what do you say were those briefings i know it was at the height of something that was that was terrible but were they for the governor moments of media magic. No i think there were moments of leadership magic as an endurance cuomo is a not uncontroversial character in american politics cities known as being tough and sometimes difficult but the contrast is what mattered there the contrast between donald trump our utter failure as a president leading us nowhere and cuomo who had the most difficult situations the 1st place hit by the pandemic new york at the crossroads of the world where people were coming in to bring it in before we knew what it was really before we knew what to do about it and how to handle it. And fighting against the federal government was providing absolutely no help so i think that his voice on television every day was a voice of trust in Science Authority trying to make Government Servants citizens these are all good things i know that here in europe we saw those briefings every day and me they were always followed by the president s briefings from the white house so that juxtaposition as you said i mean it was striking if there had been Strong National leadership coming from the white house do you think those briefings would have even been televised with a view everything been necessary. Probably not and certainly other states got worse than we did in time and there werent daily briefings televised across the whole country and even as you told me to the world of because new york was was at the early moment in this and i also think well mos mean online on the air made it Something Special with his authority with his humor or with his scolding told him you know you better not let me become down there in new york he had a paternal way to deal with us and i think we were we were hungering for real leadership from anywhere what happened in the us of course was that the various governors of the states ended up having to become the federal government in absentia they had to take over where the federal government failed they had to get it put that they had to deal with with regulations do we wear masks or not all those kinds of questions and i think cuomo did an excellent job now of course the republicans are trying to argue that we have so many deaths in new york he did a bad job but again we didnt fully know what was going on we didnt know as much as we know now we still dont fully know whats going on and it was very early in the American Experience of the pandemic but i mean it was very early and that brings me to my next point that the pandemic is far from over and were looking in the United States possibly the 2nd wave coming through some people are saying that its premature for a book like this to be released that its premature for Governor Cuomo to take what looks like a victory lap when people are still getting sick how do you see it. To say that is to say that what we do right now journalism is premature you know we have the hubris in our field of saying that we write the 1st draft of history well cuomo was part of that 1st draft of the story and i think hes perfectly free to put out his book and give the lessons i havent read it yet i havent got it yet its just out today but i i think its a fine thing to come out with it and again it serves this contrast with the lack of leadership we have in the country it shows us a model of what a leader can be and right now in this country we need that from Governor Cuomo we need that too frankly from the new america were missing leadership here in this country and wherever we can find models of it will take do you think that this is preparing a way for Governor Cuomo to run for u. S. President no i dont think so at all i think of that was speculated when we still had a field of 17 candidates in the democratic race but then one he was too busy dealing with the crisis and 2 a story ran for president would have been seen as a dereliction of duty so he really had no opportunity number 2 fairly early on it became joe biden and joe bidens the nominee i presume joe biden is going to be in for at least 4 years im personally hoping cover laris will be in great years after that so i think that pretty much kind of washes governor what was opportunity to become president i want to ask you geoff moved just remember a time when social media twitter trumpets used twitter like no president has before him if joe biden wins the election do you think for him will will twitter be almost like kryptonite is to superman. No i think joe biden will show that he can use it with authority look at the case after the democratic debate the other night there was a fly on. Vice president pences head and bidens people had it with a fly swatter a little bit of humor a little bit of humanity not coming off like an authoritarian from the the balcony like a veto is what maybe joe bidens method and thats why i hope that he still uses social media because its a way to talk directly to the public and i think i think thats as long as youre not an authoritarian thats a good thing if thats quite the image of the to and joe biden and mike pence all that in one sentence there jeff not many people can she do that jeff jarvis joining us tonight from new york city jeff its always good to talk with you thank you thank you. The British Government has introduced new measures to combat the spread of the corona virus now on tuesday the country reported 17000 new cases just in the past 24 hours deaths from cope and 19 are at a 3 month high now the steps announced by Prime MinisterBoris Johnson include a 3 tier system for fresh restrictions on areas depending on the severity of the outbreak one of the areas most seriously affected is the city of liverpool w. s charlotte shelf until reports from there tonight. Its not so it is for this pub in the northern english city liverpool after 3 and a half months lock down 80 this year pubs and bars here are once again being told to close their doors new restrictions are coming into place across the north of england bringing a new wave of darkness to both businesses and custom its. Like a very depressed local shut down. About a subject that you took 6 books not to go to get you that should make friends a couple of days chilling. Threat to its place to stay true to what. You did. With this code but you shall help issues it should be shared by the funny stuff like the question still sleeping this is all fiction this famous and looking foolish. Like many levels here on a phone he says even paying rent will become difficult after days of one says and see things the governments in london spain and businesses in the new world think its hard to screw this fall hard they have let people fear the worst before id known what help they will not even speaking to local leaders and saw the very last minute offering consist of horrible by over and normal times never mind when everyones afraid of of whats happens next but theres no getting away from the case numbers liverpool has one of the highest paid rates in europe along the way the u. K. Now has more hospital admissions than before it went into lockdown in march and its never to pull other cities will follow in liverpools footsteps before anybody into the restaurant we have a temperature gauge the water temperature neighboring manchester Award Winning restaurant chain ahead in scenes doing everything she can to keep had doors open and shes living every day on and i think the homes. I dont know whether to want to stop for this week of august. I dont know whether to take bookings there even know whether i should open up a lot you cant operate when things are so uncertain you dont know what theyre going to be open or close to the lady in red is my grandmother lily quark and she opened one of the 1st chinese restaurants in manchester even palin and her sister is a generation restauranteur is there now facing an unprecedented challenge where already struggling if im honest its not just me carrying the burden its the entire family bustle of pressure and i dont want to let them down i dont want to let my customers down and yet with the trading conditions i might have no choice but with every order we write them a little note called a lot done with and take away boxes and now one of just a few rays of light the restaurant is like hell and we still have a whole lot of life to live and a whole lot of examples to set a message you hate your Community Holding its breath for more. Well the day is almost done the conversation continues online youll find us on twitter either at g. W. News or you can follow me at golf t. V. And remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day i will see that everybody. Termes business in the middle kingdom is going well but frown much longer. China as a trading partner is becoming increasingly greater. Free Market Access is becoming more and difficult intellectual property theft humans rights violations. How much does this continue. Made in germany. To. Have fun. Playing. The capital city of north korea is reinventing itself but only a few people can enjoy the benefits. And insidious reward system coerces people into loyalty towards the regime. Those who dont make it into the fun metropolis live in poverty. Have fun enjoy. Being fully functional on d. W. Every 2 seconds the person is forced to flee their home. The consequences been disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises around the world. I didnt go to university to kill people. I mean i think people feel for their lives and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of those who stay behind. Least starts october 16th on g. W. Step aside usa soon to take over as the worlds biggest economy china is no longer just an emerging giant its already clearly stealing the top spot on the podium staking out its claims on every continent with its sprawling belt and Road Initiative impacting how most every country does business officials in beijing a setting the Global Standards in tech drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the up ahead with an immense amount of financial 5 power but chinas also highly secretive fad restrictive the question is is china more of a partner or rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the well to that in International Investment and allow for a level playing field. Spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on the best but 7 years now after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. Skyscrapers of shanghai have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German Companies have an office in this business metropolis but some are starting to get nervous. 5000 German Companies operating in China Business is good but for how long the German Chamber of commerce in beijing has confirmed that German Companies are increasingly worried. That. The 1st issue is Market Access theres a symmetrical access to the Chinese Market. A 2nd point is the Regulatory Environment and the 3rd point is obvious protecting intellectual Property Rights and finally a big concern these days is digitalisation and the Free Exchange of information and the Digital World. In chinas Digital World no one is really free beijing monitors its internet and Messenger Services like we chat for years now Foreign Companies in china have been required to store their data on chinese servers and the socalled social Credit System uses big data and Artificial Intelligence to monitor the behavior of its citizens and its companies. Why do western Companies Put up with that. For example western Companies Still have to form joint ventures with Chinese Companies. Germans can own 49 percent of the joint venture but the chinese retain the majority stake. A well known example is fox wagon which has been partners with the Chinese Automotive Company s. A. I. C. Since 1988 but joint venture requirement means the transfer of technology is almost mandatory to build in china a company has to make its know how Available Technology and systems have to be exported to china the reward is access to the Chinese Market but not to all markets theres a list of approved sectors thats updated regularly teef list is negative and just as a register of the Chinese Government uses to control what types of Foreign Investment are allowed into the country. And the slant. On the list is used to limit which industries these companies can invest and. In the spirit of currently the prohibited industries include medical Technology Environmental technology and aerospace the negative list includes 33 industries that are closed to Foreign Investment. Do the 300 Chinese Companies in germany have similar problems to deal with other negative lists here the Chinese Chamber of commerce in germany deflects the question. Of course we value the partnership between germany and china very highly and this Political Security is very important for us we are entrepreneurs of course we invest here we want to earn money here and do good business. Good business its something that German Companies are also doing in china but 44 percent of them want to see more fairness a call. Adding to an Anonymous Survey by the German Chamber of commerce in beijing why isnt anyone willing to say that on camera. Targets is no end of the day the station the economy here are so closely interwoven from the point of view of German Companies its sometimes better to address things behind closed doors rather than speak out publicly. And theres a lot to lose of all the cars have produced in the 1st half of 2020 v. W. Sold over 40 percent in china b. M. W. Sold 34 percent and im like which makes most eightys sold 33 percent that. No other western industrial country has become as dependent on china as germany. This is especially true in the auto industry. Only a few German Companies have left china like model train maker metal even the company moved back to germany because production costs were too high and the quality too low. But that was 10 years ago. Looking at real trains is much more revealing chinese high speed trains are as good as their european counterparts much of the technology was copied from european trains made by siemens and ice storm which are also built in china those companies shared their know how with that chinese partners now the copies are challenging the originals on the European Market on the one side is the gigantic state company subsidized with millions of euros and all the other private companies from europe. Since 2013 the e. U. And china have held over 30 meetings to negotiate an Investment Protection agreement so far without results. In a 3 way relationship between china the us and the european you. Theres only one way germany can play a role and thats if the e. U. Is firm and united in representing its interests feasibly china and the United States. With offical. Germany is chinas most important trading partner in europe. Do you have anything from china you know what i have in my hand my cell phone air pods i think my computer is from china to no no i think it is from china you know they are safe yes definitely i have my stuff comes from china. Coronavirus its where corona started no one thinks about where it comes from anymore. The corona virus did 1st appear in china and china took its time letting the world in on it the Chinese Communist party brutally suppressed the warnings coming from its citizens. Experts agree that if beijing had reacted faster it wouldnt have become a worldwide pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has weakened the worlds trust in china. Chinas factories deliver products to the entire world but its a police state that brutally beat down the Democracy Movement in hong kong. Is it possible to do business with a country like that. How can you do business with a country thats built large concentration camps in shin junk province to detain we go to. European companies have to ask themselves who ends up paying the price for doing business in china thats also a factor in the Investment Protection agreement our European Investments really save even if europeans demand more fairness and support for human rights more and more people are beginning to put trade between the e. U. And china to the test. And what about europes biggest economy germany a nation reliant on its exports the chinese make up a huge market for machinery cars and Premium Products made or designed by germans companies that have a lot of basted in the asian powerhouse insist there is only one china but does the german economic or German Economy really rely on the chinese to the extent that some economists would have you believe. As far as to that its wrong to say that were dependent on china on its own. If we look at the economic numbers german exports to china are to around 7 percent as important. As considered one of the sharpest critics in germany of chinese economic policies of course is aware that 7 percent of all exports represents a huge portion of the economy. In 29000 it was 96000000000 euro the german says in europe around 10 times that around 903000000000 exports to the us or 119000000000 euros. Many jobs are we creating in china does this mean that. There are varying estimates but its definitely at least a 1000000 and were only talking about jobs directly related to manufacturing and. That even if you take into account all the supplier jobs and Service Industry jobs then its a lot more. Moment so its time to apply pressure to say were creating jobs in china we dont have to put up with everything. Im fully convinced that we could take a much stronger position towards china because in fact china needs German Companies especially right now. They need German Technology and jobs much more urgently than we need china. As you know. The chinese economy has returned to growth despite the pandemic but National Debt has been increasing for years. In 2019 it reached around 56 percent of gross domestic product. Chinas g. D. P. Has almost tripled in the last 10 years d its debt ratio is still rising alarmingly. At the end of october of the Party Leadership wants to toast the agreement of a new 5 year. This is a framework for the distribution of work and money under the communist government. It also determines how much the economy should grow and which companies the chinese make trade with. Me expect from this 5 year plan. Suspect. It depends on how the chinese see globalization and how china sees it interdependence in the area of Technological Development and well see whether china relies more on National Technological sovereignty or whether it relies on International Interdependence in the partnerships with europe and the us what you think as with the mission of buy and i know its going to be a mixture of both but under she we have to expect a stronger focus on techno nationalism and the temptation will be very strong for china to be more selfsufficient and independent when it comes to innovation that will make life more difficult for germany and European Companies there. As for the u. S. The white house is no longer ruling out a complete break with china a 1st President Donald Trump imposed billions in customs duties on goods imported from china now washington is quite openly talking about decoupling the American Economy from the chinese one. I think we have to say goodbye to the idea that everything is becoming more interdependent and globalized were in a de globalization phase at the same time its also clear that we cant just push ahead blindly and assume that the situation is going to stay the way it has been and for German Companies that means facing some difficult choices. Well germany may not be as dependent as you think on china as an export market but the coronavirus has highlighted how dependent multinational corporations and many other Small Businesses are on chinese suppliers spare parts Raw Materials manufacturing and very important right now ingredients for pharmaceuticals as the virus spread abroad and its neighbors close their borders to china whole supply chains fell apart it also hurt the chinese economy as factories closed and people were forced to stay home now things are gradually returning to normal. The beginning of a. Travel season or on national day most people get 2 weeks off its a high point for beijings cultural sites like a forbidden city which hosts 14000000 tourists a year. It is also the 1st National Day Holiday since the outbreak of corbett 19 just over half a year ago beijing city center looked very different during the winter beijings heritage sites were shut down because of the epidemic travel restrictions were in place in the whole country. This is usually a bustling commercial street lots of souvenir shops knock shops tourists who visit beijing usually come to spend time here today im the only one. And this is what the same things like the late. China has brought the epidemic under control there are burchill no more domestic transmission and people are enjoying a return to a new normal life. So theyve got. To use have the knowledge. That there are you so i dont i dont see all. That was right in that theyre not aware that. There are still measures in place people have to use a health and scan the code to register certain locations tourist sites have limited visitor numbers estimates put the number of tourists in china during this season that 550000000 people that would be 2 thirds of last years figure. That if you have that. You know were going to. Chinas economy has returned to positive growth Government Spending on infrastructure and construction has brought workers back into the city. The growth is still a lot. Slower than in previous years private consumption you specially is lagging behind companies have cut wages and council bonuses for the employees in downtown beijing the traces of the past 6 months are still visible. Businesses have been hit hard by this crisis many have little to no income for months and months and many shops and restaurants have to shut down experts have long warned of chinas imbalance growth too much investment and too little consumption corporate 19 has made these warnings ever more urgent china has a history of ambitious projects the great wall of china the silk road and now its new silk road officially known as the belt Road Initiative its the largest Infrastructure Project ever seen the transport Energy Mining i. T. And communications projects spanned the globe and even reached into outer space the original silk road basing quaint according to todays standards but the fact is it paved the way to where we are now. A brief history of the silk road 6400 kilometers searing 50 degree celsius heat the bitter cold of 40 below across steps deserts and high mountains with the constant threat of armed bandits. The silk road a perilous challenge the bones of pack animals litter the way as if in morning. But the worlds oldest and most important trade route was not a single road it was a vast network of many caravan routes. By the 2nd century b. C. E. The silk road connected china to the roman empire. The term silk road was popularized in 1987 by german geographer fed in unfunded leached often. Silk was highly sought after by roman women. But only the chinese knew how to produce the valuable textile. The 2 year long trip with up to 1000. 00 bactrian camels was worth it they didnt just carry silk but also spices lacquers 1st and porcelain. In return europe sent gold gem stones and glass. Inventions too such as paper and black gunpowder were spread. And even with lynchings were transmitted buddhism arrived in china and japan by way of the silk road. Cities along the silk road flourished in summer conned and tashkent there was a rumor in train. Most merchants only travelled short distances then sold their wares to the next buyers this made the goods more expensive but diseases were also transmitted along the train like the plague which killed a 3rd of europes population in the 14th century. The demise of the silk road began mainly because it was replaced by new maritime brutes customs duties and bandits could be avoided and reach their destinations more quickly. And today chinas new silk road is expected to cost a trillion euros but that gigantic Infrastructure Project is not about reviving the glories of money its purely a shrewd economic investment. And that brings us to the controversy this initiative is the centerpiece of president Foreign Policy is a clever way of locking in future markets for chinese goods and services but also a risky way of keeping countries on the drip of financial lifeline the. Developing economies since the. Several have applied for debt for life however before taking things too far governments might want to consider chinas human rights record and its green credentials. A gigantic construction site part of a highway said to run 170 kilometers across montenegro financed with the help of a 1000000000 euro loan from china this stretch of construction is along the Charles River part of a unesco World Heritage site some environmental activists say the decision to build here was a mistake there had been 18 alternatives to teach ikey about the steps meant and why is the great question none of these is just considering that this is your next post and some out of it than if you should be taken point out of. This the Charles River gorge is one of the deepest in europe the river basin is a biosphere reserve. The water that flows from the Higher Elevations is crystal clear. Environmental activist Natasha Mitchell says its one of the most ecologically important regions in montenegro. Its host for many speeches the species like species. So. That was 3100 kilometers because its. About 100 kilometers downstream is where the chinese financed highway will run directly across a tributary of the Charles River. Building on this terrain is complicated and expensive the activist believes that the valley route was chosen because its the cheapest option biologist studying the issue say that the construction project is destroying the habitat of various fish and plant species. Up to 4000. 00 construction workers from china have been working here during Peak Construction phases Chinese Companies are raking in the profits but paying precious little in tax plus all the Construction Materials and equipment imported from china are exempt from customs duties. Which is Environmental Organization employs 15 people their work is supported by donations as well as some funding from the European Union. While were filming a guard pops up and orders us to leave the area even though were on a public road. Chinese manager just said that we have to leave the place because we can take a but we cannot take our reports of the construction because this is something that should be forbidden so the site of the new highway will connect montenegros coast to the north of the country. In the capital the state run agency money to put its responsible for the construction work the director insists its all in accordance with ease standards. But were on the right path because we want to develop north montenegro that helps the country and europe as a whole the north of the country underdeveloped compared to the south. But the north has enormous potential in the areas of industry tourism and energy. Months is an Anti Corruption watchdog that keeps a close eye on the montenegrin government. Is investigating the Financial Impact of the 1000000000 euro loan. Its a difficult task because the government is keeping the financial details under lock and key. Research shows that Construction Contracts to domestic firms are only going to companies with close ties to the government hes also discovered that under the terms of the loan an Arbitration Court in china would have jurisdiction over any legal disputes and if montenegro cant repay the debt in time china would be able to make collateral claims. Montenegro is a small country with a population of just over 600000 the average income is around 500. 00 euros a month the chinese loan is worth almost one 5th of montenegros g. D. P. We asked monte puts director for his assessment. But there are always risks associated with any construction project. Thats the government investigated these risks in full detail. So we can say that the project wont be a problem for the montenegrin budget. And its important to know that every cent of highway tolls will go into paying back the loan but we believe well be able to pay it back down to the last cent and. Then of that revenue. We had to an area just south of the capital where another section of highway is under construction pitted against a 1000000000 euro project environmental activists like that tasha of which are very much underdogs but shes determined to speak out against the lack of transparency and rampant environmental destruction with the Chinese Investor and their culture actually its more about just straightforward thing and doing things without the 2 questions and of course the it also causes some questions and none understand it. For the time being this is still a highway to nowhere whether the new superhighway will ever reach neighboring serbia is very much an open question. Skepticism and concerns over chinas place in the Global Economy could be higher but its clear the chinese. 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