of the association of south east asian nations, or asean, to discuss security and economic cooperation. one of the highest items on blinken s agenda is china s influence in the region. blinken said the us is concerned about china s assertiveness in the south and east china seas and in the taiwan strait, and added that the us wants to maintain peace and stability in the area. germany has unveiled a revised strategy towards china that seeks to factor in what berlin calls beijing s increasing assertiveness. china is germany s biggest trading partner and the chancellor 0laf scholz said the goal was not to disconnect, but to avoid critical dependencies in the future. the de risking strategy echoes that of the european union. staying in the states, the republican governor of iowa kim reynolds signed a bill into law that bans most abortions in the state as early as six weeks into pregnancy. the law is effective immediately and it comes after reynolds ordered a rare
companies need to diversify. and this document makes it very clear to all these companies that there will be no government bailout in case of a crisis or of a shutdown of the chinese market for whatever reason. and so basf and volkswagen entertaining their relationship with the chinese market and their own risk. and there will be no government funds available in case of a meltdown of the chinese market. we believe that for the usual products like machinery and also chemicals, companies are up to the task to de risk and to mitigate risk on their own. when it comes to raw materials like rare earths, when it comes to delivery chains, and especially when it comes to high tech goods which can be used for military purposes as well, there is a definite need for government intervention and restrictions.
as you know. they had been planning a trip to china. should she still make that trip? 50 a trip to china. should she still make that trip? a trip to china. should she still make that trip? so i don t believe we have announced make that trip? so i don t believe we have announced the make that trip? so i don t believe | we have announced the commerce secretary s trip to china, but we have made it very clear that we think it is important that both us officials travelled to china, of course, i mentioned already that secretary blinken was there last month. secretary yellin returned and we expect other senior us officials travel to to china just as we expect senior chinese officials to travel to the united states when we are in china, secretary blinken issued an invitation to his counterpart from the foreign minister, he accepted. we look forward to welcoming him to the united states later this year. we think it is our responsibility as a major power and we think it is china s responsib
able to get him to the vet. some days it s one client after another, they are heart breaking. the team say they ve seen an increase in the number of people coming to the clinic. there is a lot of sad situations, but i think it s good that we can just do whatever we can to help them, really. i think it s amazing. vets are really expensive outs when we re on benefits and things like that, so worrying about our animals. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you re live with bbc news. the german foreign ministry released a 64 page report on thursday, presenting its first comprehensive strategy on china as an effort to de risk their relationship. this comes a month after chinese premier li qiang met with german president frank walter steinmeier to discuss bilateral relations between the two economies. some of the key points from germany s assesment are thatgermany will take countermeasures on a national and european level against trans national repression,
went to ask you about something that went to ask you about something that we sigh, singapore s foreign minister say, we are not choosing sides, we do not want to be proxies, we do not want to be vassal states, we do not want to be vassal states, we do not want to be divided. what do you make of that? i we do not want to be divided. what do you make of that? do you make of that? i would say that at least do you make of that? i would say that at least on do you make of that? i would say that at least on the do you make of that? i would say that at least on the united - do you make of that? i would sayi that at least on the united states behalf, we have never asked any country to choose sides between us and china. we fully expect other countries in the world to have diplomatic relations with china, to have economic relations with china. the united states has diplomatic relations and economic relations with china, the secretary of state just returned from a trip several weeks ago t