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sluggish exports and waning demand had been weighing on the economy. earlier i spoke with a former us diplomat who explained the balancing act germany has to trade with china. i think germany is trying to do what it can to enhance the economic relationship while still respecting the important political alliance with the united states of course the crux of this is ukraine, where both germany and the united states support ukraine at pushing back russia and china is on the other side of that with a warm embrace of putin. what challenges will both countries face moving forward economically? there is a question for germany about dependency or concentration risk. remember as a lead up to ukraine germany continue to build its economic relationship with russia and ended up in a vulnerable position in regard to energy supplies. i think there is some sense it s germany might want to repeat that with china or not. at the same time they have a business obligation to do what they ca ....
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 th ....
Capability and see where it best fits in the systems and platforms that we design and we develop. but we re also going to work with our customer on the most practical use of those capabilities. i don t personally believe that there s a situation where you re going to see any government, any army, any service, hand over complete control of these capabilities to a robot, to a machine, to an ai capability. it is a tool to be used in the appropriate place. that debate will go on and on. meanwhile, india s low cost carrier indigo has made a record orderfor 500 airbus a320 aircraft the largest ever single purchase agreement by any airline in commercial aviation history. our india business correspondent nikhil inamdar has more on what this historic purchase tells us about the country s booming aviation market. this mammoth orderfor indigo really reflects india s emergence as the next growth ....