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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will today
arrive in Beijing kicking off a 3 day

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visit to China as she attempts to
encourage Beijing to open up its markets

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to European businesses yet so with
a battalion of business figures in tow

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the trip is like me to force Mrs Merkel to
tread delicately becomes in the middle of

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an increasingly bitter trade to
speak between the U.S. and China.

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With Joining us now for

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more on this is Christopher Schoen
executive director of applied with X.

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morning it's the Think Feel time it's
widely expected that Merkel's going to use

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this visit to help with a the bed for
a trade deal between the China what

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might some of them a just stumbling
blocks before and this set.

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Is in a very delicate position so this
is obviously the geopolitical picture.

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Major trade war between China and the U.S.
but also this a lot of pressure on.

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In particular around what is going
on in Hong Kong at the moment the.

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Human rights infringement.

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Intellectual property and so

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on so there are a lot of things
to consider on this trip.

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I mean one of those for example is that
she's been under some pressure to push

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spacing on fat and political.

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How that is going to be the thing
when it comes to areas like that.

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She is in a very very difficult position
at the moment so obviously there's this

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stopped but also the outlook the economic
outlook in Germany is very bleak so

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she is under a lot of pressure
to open new opportunities for

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German companies to make money to

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exports which is obviously very
important for the German economy and.

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So this trade when do you think it
might become a reality if it will.

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Well said so they have

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much much bigger problems right
now with the not so this breaks it

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looming this also is still
a dispute between the U.S.

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and China so it's very difficult to say at
the moment what the timeline could be for

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this Christopher John thank you for
the good money here.