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The Daily Update: The Chancellor's Hong Kong Dilemma

2019-09-05T15:28:36.870Z


Here you will find the most important news of the day, the most popular stories of SPIEGEL + and tips for your end of workday. The theme of the day: Human Rights vs. Economic contacts Will she or will not she? Chancellor Angela Merkel has ...



Here you will find the most important news of the day, the most popular stories of SPIEGEL + and tips for your end of workday.

The theme of the day: Human Rights vs. Business contacts

Will she or will not she? Chancellor Angela Merkel has just begun her twelfth trip to China. As always, the opposition and organizations urge her to address the human rights situation with the powerful in the People's Republic. This time, the situation of the people in Hong Kong, who have been taking to the streets against the growing influence of Beijing for weeks, is particularly urgent. Activists in Hong Kong, Berlin and Hamburg would like to see the Chancellor campaign for her.

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Protesters outside the Chancellery in Berlin: "Please hold to Hong Kong"

Merkel sent however already before her departure cautious signals in their direction. On the question of whether Chancellor Joshua Wong and other activists will meet in their upcoming visit to China, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Merkel's travel program had not changed. The program does not include such a meeting. The German Chancellor has been the first western head of government to visit Beijing since the protests began. Your host is in an acute political crisis.

Merkel is also interested in closer economic contacts with China. She has a large business delegation on her trip to Beijing and then to Wuhan in Hubei Province. So another issue could be much more likely to be discussed: China's growing internal controls on foreign companies. In addition, the US trade dispute with China puts German companies in distress.

The attempt to influence him on Hong Kong would not be tolerated by President Xi Jinping anyway: his government classifies the demonstrators as "terrorists", the protest is a "purely internal matter". Xi has warned against the influence of "Western values" for years. Why China distrusts the West has been written down by SPIEGEL correspondent Bernhard Zand.

The quote of the day: "Alabama will NOT feel any effects from 'Dorian'"

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Donald Trump with modified map at the briefing on hurricane "Dorian"

This was announced several times by the official weather service in the US state of Alabama. The background: US President Trump claimed that Alabama could be hit by hurricane "Dorian" - although there was no evidence to support it. To support his thesis, Trump finally presented his own card in which a black felt-tip pen had apparently drawn a circle that reached to Alabama. This raises questions.

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My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday

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Scene from "Synonyms"

Tonight you could go to the movies again - and watch the furious Golden Bear winner "Synonyms". The film is about identity and the question: Can one get rid of oneself and then reinvent oneself? At least that is what the former Israeli soldier Yoav, who wants to start a new life in Paris, is trying to do. Here is the review of the movie.

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Vanessa Steinmetz from the Daily Team

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