Free Speech

All,

Interesting statistic on Free Speech below - clearly excluding a good number of countries. Still, the "numbers speak volumes”.

Purple are the number of arrested journalists, orange the number of kidnapped journalists. The difference is only notional however and really only depends on whether or not the “criminal" organisation is recognised as running the country.

Note that China now represents close to 8% of German exports and is, therefore, its largest trading partner. In the last two years, the German government has had a number of meetings with key heads of industry to encourage a shift away from China, but with Germany as dependent as it is, there is little chance of Europe joining any US trade war on China - wherever that will be headed under Biden.

Wolfgang
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