Richard the german chancellor Angela Merkel she had high hopes for the summit that was originally planned for today and can she still achieve them. Yeah its very unlikely that shes going to achieve what she wanted today but its good to think about what this day was meant to be september the 14th they were supposed to be not meeting by Video Conference like this there was supposed to be. A real in person summit between the entire e. U. And china taking place in the german city of lights with all of the leaders of the e. U. Countries present now that was supposed to be a kind of crowning achievement where they would sit down and actually sign this investment treaty that was the german hope that that would be one of the highlights of germanys current presidency of the European Union and we see it hasnt come to that a tour and they seem very far apart as weve just heard from georg and that really is just shining an entirely new light on germanys entire approach to relations with china that
Together in person, although very much hope will be sometime soon. But in the meantime its nice to connect this way and stay tuned come the Manhattan Institute putting together a ton of virtual content that they will be rolling out over the next few months. So look at your in boxes for some information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest, douglas murray, to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist, and im sure many of you if not all have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal, the National Review or of course in the spectator where he is an associate editor but this is also an author most recently as 2019 book the madness of crowds and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and i was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic and while he is an observer of all things, you can the uk and im sure u. S. , un
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