Germany is toughening up on China

From The China Project News Briefing for January 11, 2023

Germany is toughening up on China: In the past few months, the German government, led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, has come under fire at home and among its fellow EU member states for being too conciliatory in its dealings with the worldโ€™s second-largest economy.

  • “If China attacks Taiwan, our relationship with China will also fundamentally change, as is the case now with Russia,” Lars Klingbeil, the leader of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), told Die Zeit today per Reuters.