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تتجه الأنظار إلى بكين، حيث وصل دونالد ترامب برفقة رؤساء كبرى شركات التكنولوجيا. في أول زيارة له منذ عام 2017 يلتقي الرئيس الأميركي شي جين بينغ، فيما تتابع بروكسل بقلق وتخشى الأسوأ.
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تتجه الأنظار إلى بكين، حيث وصل دونالد ترامب برفقة رؤساء كبرى شركات التكنولوجيا. في أول زيارة له منذ عام 2017 يلتقي الرئيس الأميركي شي جين بينغ، فيما تتابع بروكسل بقلق وتخشى الأسوأ.
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02:41We don't know the detailed agenda, but they're expected to discuss a whole range of thorny issues, the core of
02:49which is trade.
02:51And Trump himself, just before his departure, said that he'll be talking about trade with Xi Jinping more than anything
02:58else.
02:58Now, Trump is flanked by 17 CEOs of big American corporations, Elon Musk among them.
03:06I mean, he's seeking to strike deals with China to have them buy more American products from food to aircraft.
03:13Remember the trade war with China that Trump started has sent the bilateral trade into freefall and forced companies from
03:21both sides of the Pacific to regroup.
03:24Now, the Chinese side wants a more balanced economic relationship, a more stable relationship, and they seem to have the
03:33better cards.
03:34They are sitting on most of the world's rare earth reserves that are used for basically every tech product that
03:42has a battery.
03:43They control the critical supply lines and they have invested heavily in green tech, in green energy.
03:51And that makes them suffer much less than other countries from the current energy crunch and the recent spike in
04:00oil prices due to the war in Iran.
04:03And this is where Trump's problems start.
04:05The Iran war that he triggered more than two months ago has led to global energy crunch, sky high oil
04:12prices and gas prices and plummeting approval ratings at home.
04:15So he doesn't seem to have a strategy to end the war in Iran.
04:21And now he wants the Chinese to help him find a diplomatic solution.
04:25But so far, Beijing has shown very little interest to wade into this conflict that they consider entirely to Washington's
04:33making.
04:34Instead, Xi prefers to let the U.S. embroil itself in another Middle East war.
04:41So getting the Chinese to do something about Iran, that is probably Trump's biggest challenge here.
04:46OK, and meanwhile, of course, today in Brussels, the EU institutions are closed for the bank holiday, but they are
04:51keeping a close eye very nervously.
04:54Yes, indeed, Maeve.
04:55They are watching the summit from the sidelines because there's not much else they can do.
05:00And they are quite nervous because, really, they can't be optimistic about any outcome as they risk being squeezed between
05:11superpowers, two superpowers who don't care much about European interests.
05:15If Trump and Xi struck a tactical deal over what we call managed trade that would give the U.S.
05:24preferential access to rare earths, for example, that would leave Europe with shortages and trade restrictions that put a lot
05:33of pressure on European companies.
05:35That is about the nightmare scenario for the European Union.
05:39On the other hand, if U.S.-China trade relations further escalated and became a trade war, that could hit European
05:48industries through weaker demand, globally disrupt supply change and financial volatility.
05:56So it's almost a lose-lose situation for the Europeans, Maeve.
06:00OK, Stefan Krober, thank you so much for that analysis.
06:03And as you heard there, an interesting takeaway from this visit is the fact that some of the most richest
06:08and most powerful tech companies in the world are also present.
06:12Our Jakub Janis has the low down.
06:15Hey, how's your first day?
06:17Because Donald Trump has just landed in Beijing for a summit that feels less like diplomacy and more like a
06:23Silicon Valley board meeting.
06:24He hasn't just brought officials.
06:27And one could say he has arrived with an AI cabinet to navigate high-stakes tech cold war.
06:32All right, so who's on the guest list and should Europe be worried?
06:38First, Elon Musk is there to protect Tesla's massive Chinese footprint and also his interest as head of XAI.
06:45And he's accompanied by Tim Cook, who is managing his final lab as Apple's CEO, balancing billions in sales with
06:52a shift of production away from China.
06:55And there is also the king of chips, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, who joined at the last minute to lobby for
07:02the sale of powerful H200 AI chips, which are currently stalled by US and Chinese regulations.
07:08And joining them are the giants of the supply chain.
07:11Micron is there to fight Beijing's ban on American memory chips, while Qualcomm aims to protect its role as the
07:17primary chip supplier for China's biggest smartphone brands.
07:21And they are not just talking trade.
07:23They are discussing the new age of AI-supported warfare and the risk of China copying American frontier models.
07:31So if you ever wondered what the AI industry looks like in practice, these CEOs provide the perfect picture.
07:37And that picture also highlights where Europe stands in the AI race.
07:42So if you're looking for a European OpenAI or Google, the news is grim.
07:47The continent lacks hyperscale giants.
07:50But hey, the news isn't all bad, as Europe is securing its own AI supply chain.
07:56And while superpowers fight over AI models, European firms like STMicroelectronics, SOITEC, and ASML provide the essential hardware to build
08:07them.
08:07And this bet is on strategic autonomy.
08:10The idea that you don't need to outspend the superpowers if you control the tools that drive the race.
08:16Huh, but will it be enough?
08:18Well, you can always ask this question to your favorite AI agent.
08:21Just remember, the answer might vary depending on whether you ask Elon Musk's Grok or Francis Mistral.
08:33That was Jakob Janis, of course, reporting for us there.
08:36And now to take a closer look at what's at stake for the EU, we can bring in Michael Bloss,
08:40a German MEP from the Green Party.
08:43MEP is working very closely on EU-China relations.
08:46We're thrilled to have you with us.
08:47Good morning.
08:48And of course, we're hearing, you know, Donald Trump saying, we're the two superpowers, referring to the US and China.
08:54So where does that leave the European Union?
08:56Sandwich somewhere in the middle.
09:00That's true.
09:00It is a moment where Europe has to realize that it is not sitting at the table when the two
09:07superpowers speak about very important things that is also determining Europe's face.
09:15So they're shaking hands over the heads of European leaders.
09:21And we have to understand that only when Europe speaks with one voice, when we are better coordinating in our
09:30China policy, but also in our US policy, we can have an influence.
09:34Well, that is the issue.
09:35You said Europeans are not around the table and everyone says if you're not on the table, you're clearly on
09:40the menu.
09:40How can the EU and the 27 countries survive in this world where Washington and Beijing are cutting deals over
09:47Europe's head and neither obviously caring about the climate, the environment or privacy issues?
09:54Well, it seems that we have to realize that it's difficult to survive if we're not speaking with one voice,
10:01but it's really Europe is squeezed as it was said already.
10:05There is a trade war with the US happening, but also if we look at our trade relations with China,
10:14this has really turned around now.
10:16Now, there is a trade deficit of 360 billion euros.
10:22So the question is for us, how do we get more autonomy and more sovereignty?
10:29And I think the answer is, as I said already, speaking with one voice, it's very difficult, especially looking at
10:36the member states.
10:37And China is doing this divide and conquer policy.
10:44But it also means, for instance, with regards to energy imports, energy policy, becoming sovereign by producing our own energy.
10:56And second, I think also rare earth.
10:58Europe is absolutely dependent for all its technology on rare earth.
11:02And also here we have to diversify and not become not being so dependent on China.
11:07And of course, Donald Trump is a very transactional president.
11:10How could deals being struck this week in Beijing impact negatively European industry?
11:18Yeah, it was already said when there is better relationships between the US and China that can result in less
11:29market access, for instance, from the EU to the Chinese market.
11:36However, I think I want to also discuss on another policy area, which is security.
11:43I think that's also very important.
11:45And it's interesting that there is a risk that the US is less focused on Taiwan.
11:57And we see that the main security risk for Europe currently is Russia's attack on Ukraine.
12:05We heard that tonight and yesterday there was this massive drone attack.
12:09And China is supporting Russia in this.
12:14If China would pull the plug on the war of Russia against Ukraine, that would really help us.
12:22But it seems that they are more entering into some kind of imperialist policies.
12:30And that's really also a problem for Europe.
12:33OK, Michael Bluss, thank you so much for waking up early on this Thursday bank holiday for joining us here
12:38live on Europe Today.
12:39I'm moving on to Bucharest, where NATO Secretary General Marco Lütze joined talks with the so-called B9 countries, mostly
12:46from the east.
12:47The idea was to beef up defence technologies.
12:50It comes as the US announced that 5,000 troops, excuse me, could be withdrawn from Germany over European countries'
12:57refusal to join the war in Iran.
12:59Our NATO correspondent, Shona Murray, has the scoop and joins me now here on set.
13:04Good morning, Shona.
13:05Just first, tell us about these meetings.
13:07Well, the B9 meeting was in Bucharest, which is the central European countries like Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and
13:16so on.
13:17And they were also joined by the Nordic countries, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and so on.
13:21Also, President Zelensky was there and Mark Rutte, Secretary General of NATO.
13:25So it was an important meeting to discuss European security and joint drone production.
13:29But Mark Rutte, the Secretary General, was also asked about this rift with Donald Trump that's ongoing with NATO.
13:34He said NATO allies have gotten the message over Iran, but not quite true.
13:38Because if you look at Trump's message yesterday to reporters, he said that NATO was very disappointing to me.
13:44NATO was not there when we wanted them.
13:46We don't need NATO, but if we need them, they just weren't there.
13:49So you can see that's ongoing.
13:51But lots of sources I've spoken to said that really Donald Trump is trying to distract from what is not
13:55very successful war in Iran.
13:57And meanwhile, of course, Shona, you have some exclusive information about these plans of the U.S. to withdraw troops
14:02from Germany.
14:03Tell us more.
14:03So this is really interesting, Maeve, because as we know, the U.S. announced 5,000 troops were withdrawn from
14:08NATO territory in Germany.
14:10What I heard over the last few hours and late last night, it was confirmed to be by a NATO
14:14person, was that instead of removing the 5,000, a 4,000 troop brigade that was due to be sent
14:20from the United States to Poland has been cancelled.
14:23So in effect, there's no net problem when it comes to NATO's troop force within Europe.
14:30Now, take a listen to Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, when he was asked about this yesterday.
14:35When you look at the U.S. presence in Europe, it is still vast and massive.
14:40And there is a clear commitment between the United States to stay involved.
14:43We know that we are investing now more in Europe.
14:45We have always known that the United States, over time, has to pivot more towards Asia.
14:50So we are all in this all together.
14:55And obviously, it is a sovereign decision of the United States where they will bring their troops, how they will
15:00do that.
15:01But we do this in close consultation.
15:03And that's Mark Rutte.
15:03And he's not necessarily answering the question.
15:06And this is interesting because in Poland over the past few weeks, after that announcement, Polish media was speculating that
15:13these troops could go from Germany to Poland.
15:16In fact, the opposite is the case.
15:17A whole 4,000 troop, it's a replenishment troop or brigade, will now not be sent to Poland, which will
15:23obviously be very difficult for them.
15:24But essentially, there is no net effect to NATO's troop force within U.S. troop forces within NATO.
15:31And I heard, did get a confirmation on this from a NATO military official who said NATO rotational forces do
15:38not factor into NATO's deterrence and defence plan.
15:41So it looks like this issue has been somewhat resolved for the betterment of everybody, including U.S.-NATO relations.
15:48OK, Sean O'Murray, our NATO correspondent, thank you so much for that very comprehensive analysis.
15:53But now to another story that's making the rounds here in Brussels.
15:57The EU has stopped short of heeding a petition by over one million Europeans about banning unscientific conversion therapy, designed,
16:05of course, to change people's identity and sexual orientation.
16:08The U.S., or the U.N., excuse me, is calling for a worldwide ban.
16:12Our EU correspondent, Angela Scudgin, spoke exclusively to the EU Commissioner for Equality, Hadjil Abib.
16:18Yeah, it's a torture and it's a physical and psychological harassment that could lead to a deep depression or suicide.
16:28And that's why we need really to react and to combat these practices.
16:34And these young citizens who gather one million signatures succeed to create awareness.
16:41We've launched a study and we are going to organize to put into a place a forum for discussion between
16:48member states, between the commission.
16:50Already eight member states took the decision in their legislative national legislation to ban these practices.
16:59But we need to see all of them and we are going to encourage them and to show the path.
17:06And by taking this recommendation, we take a very strong stance.
17:11We need to see these practices banned in our union.
17:16But you just highlighted that eight member states have banned this.
17:19How are you going to convince the other dozens that haven't done this so far?
17:22What pressure are you going to put on them?
17:24By exchanging best practices, so we will show, first of all, that it is possible to ban, no matter what
17:31is your political architecture.
17:35I mean, Germany has taken this bold step, Belgium, Spain, many countries.
17:41And three countries at least are monitoring, are willing to take this kind of decision.
17:52And I think we need to create more awareness because, frankly speaking, I met many ministers and a lot of
18:01them are not aware of what are these practices about.
18:04What happens if a member state does not accept this recommendation?
18:09What follows from the side of the commission?
18:12It's non-binding.
18:14This is the path that we choose because we didn't want to take, you know, decades of discussions like we
18:25are doing with the Equal Treatment Directive.
18:28So we prefer to build on the goodwill, on awareness and on the fact that if we need, if we
18:34still believe that our union is a union of freedom, of expression, of equality, we need to ban these practices.
18:46Angela Scudens there, speaking to the Belgian EU Commissioner, Hadja Labby.
18:51And in case you missed it, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, he's back in the news again,
18:57as French prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for him for allegedly accepting illegal campaign contributions from the
19:04late Libyan dictator.
19:05A verdict is expected on November 30th.
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