can only be one winner. in his first ever interview with international media, young liu, foxconn s chairman, charts the company s survival. we hope peace and stability will be something the leader of these two countries will keep those in mind. wherever you go in taiwan, everybody knows foxconn. the company dominates things here. it s benefited from decades of a stable relationship between the us and china, but it s now caught in middle of a giant tug of war between the two sides, and is looking for that next product to help it chart its future. how it does that is what i ll be exploring in this edition of asia s tech titans. the changing of the guard at taiwan s national revolutionary martyr s momument. taiwan is an island that s always been on edge. since 1950, taiwan has been functioning as a self ruled island, but china sees it as a rebel region that must be reunited with the mainland by force if necessary. the chinese government continues to see taiwan as a core intere
and hot on the heels of antony blinken s visit to china. beijing will seek to improve its ties with europe. however, europe has also started to pull away from china to ensure it is not too reliant on their exports. still, there are strong economic ties between germany and china for the last seven years germany has been china s biggest trading partner in europe. so, what is at stake? i m joined by gregor sebastian economics analyst at the mercator institute for china studies based out of berlin. 0ne welcome to the programme. first of all, for the two leaders what do they want to achieve in the next few days? good morning. i mean, the first thing isjust that good morning. i mean, the first thing is just that the meeting is taking place, right? we have a radically different relationship between the two leaders now than we had in devious years. under angela merkel s meant the cabinets on the chinese and german sides had really constant and close relations and this is the firs
hello and welcome to the programme. the us coastguard has launched a search and rescue operation, after a sub mersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the titanic went missing in the atlantic ocean. the vessel with five people on board lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into a dive to the wreck. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada.from boston , our correspondent jessica parker reports. designed to plunge the depths of the ocean, this is the titan submersible, now missing in the north atlantic after contact with the vessel was lost. it sparked a frantic but complicated search. 0n the bottom, particularly very deep, it s going to be difficult to rescue it. none of the conventional submarine rescue methods, which are designed mainly for naval submarines, would be able to operate down at the depth of the titanic. even if it could get down there, the hatc
i m a wreck. and i ll never, ever get over it. i m absolutely brokenhearted, because georgia shouldn t. .. she shouldn t have been murdered. reynolds could and should have been dealt with. simple to put him in front of a judge and a judge could have done everything that they needed to do with reynolds. i mean, it s absolutely heartbreaking to hear you speak like that and i m so, so sorry for you. and the family, obviously. what do you want people to take away from this interview and from the book that you ve written? ijust hope that people read it, they can pick up on certain things and it might help them out if ever they are in the horrible situation that we found ourselves in. steve and annette, thank you very much for talking to us. i really appreciate it, thank you. thanks for having us. yes, thanks for letting us explain what it s really like. west merica police who investgiated jamie reynolds told us that the force s handling of previous incidents by him was investigate