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#GERMANY: Olaf Scholz hat in hand to Xi. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#GERMANY: Olaf Scholz hat in hand to Xi. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Editor-in-Chief: Strategic Europe, in Berlin.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/92230

1871 Berlin

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor. The IMF comes out with

0:09.8

predictions about this time for growth in the G7 and G20. The G7 is at issue right now worried

0:17.8

about the three wars in Eurasia. However, the pocketbook is what determines the future of a political

0:26.8

administration to Germany, to Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

0:33.4

She is the editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe,

0:36.5

which I urge you to sign up,

0:38.2

and you can follow our allies very closely,

0:41.0

because they vote Pocketbook just the way the U.S. does. And right now the U.S. is in

0:45.8

the catbird seat. The expectation is that we'll grow 2.7 percent this year. That is more than twice any other part of the G7. For example, Japan at

0:59.3

0.9, the UK at 0.5, and Germany at 0.2.

1:05.0

Judy, a very good evening to you.

1:07.0

Your new column for Strategic Europe

1:10.0

identifies that the Chancellor of Germany, Mr Schultz,

1:14.0

leader of the Social Democrats, has traveled to China the second time in my easy

1:19.0

memory during the war and looking for business looking for more integration of the German

1:26.4

and Chinese manufacturing and sales. At the same time Mr Schultz is aware that China is participating in the aggressive war in New

1:36.8

Asia.

1:37.8

One that I'm pointing to right now is a report these last days that China's been using middlemen to supply weapon systems

1:46.9

to Russia. There is also the banking, there is also the buying of oil and China

1:51.7

buys oil from Tehran a huge deal and the sanctions are

1:56.8

not imposed all of this is to say Mr Schultz knows that he's embassy is into the adversarial camp. Is that a concern for the

2:06.6

voters in Germany that he's gone over to the block that is driving the turmoil.

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