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Germany’s new China strategy is a diplomatic high-wire act
The German government’s recently released “Strategy on China” has struck a balance between the country’s more pro-China business interests and the China-skeptic foreign policy establishment. While it is only a position paper, there is reason to believe that it marks an important milestone and irreversible shift in wider European relations with China.
Editor’s note for June 23, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Editor’s note for June 20, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Xi met with Blinken, Li courts German businesses, Modi to visit the U.S.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing yesterday, in a bid to stabilize ties between the two superpowers. Meanwhile, China’s No. 2 official is in Berlin on a trip aimed at smoothing things over with Europe’s economic powerhouse.
A cultural program for young Uyghurs in Germany
Activist Abduweli Ayup is attempting to keep Uyghur culture alive by teaching the younger generation their history and heritage.
China’s semiconductor industry can’t quit German optics
Optical systems are crucial to the high-tech machines China needs to manufacture advanced semiconductors. But Chinese optics firms are reliant on foreign supply chains that are coming under growing scrutiny.
Will Germany let China have its chips?
Should Germany sell its chips and ports to China? What about cars and advanced manufacturing tools? German companies and politicians all face some very uncomfortable choices.
Scholz’s controversial trip wins Germany more business deals with China
Germany is divided over how to handle China. This was reflected in how Chancellor Olaf Scholz justified his visit to Beijing to his critics, and the contrast between talk on human rights and discussions about business.
Can Germany ‘reduce lopsided dependencies’ on China?
Chancellor Scholz of Germany met Xi Jinping in Beijing on Friday, in a visit that was criticized by many in Germany, including his own party. But Sino-German trade is huge, and China is eager for more.
Cosco Shipping is making money despite global oceans of gloom
Cosco Shipping has just acquired a large stake in Hamburg Port, and is making billions in a downward-trending shipping freight market.
EU officials find cracks in Beijing’s support for Putin, while Germany’s Scholz plans trip to China | Live with Lizzi Lee
Noah Barkin, managing editor at the Rhodium Group, discusses Olaf Scholz’s planned trip to China in November, and murmurs among EU officials that Beijing has shifted its tone on Russia.
How to defend yourself against Chinese economic coercion — Q&A with Bonnie Glaser
Bonnie Glaser has a lifetime of experience researching and advising the U.S. government on trans-Pacific geopolitics, security, and defense. I asked her all about the global anxieties China and the U.S. are causing around the world, how close we are to a war over Taiwan, and much more.
Editor’s note for Friday, January 21, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Anti-corruption investigations are coming to Big Tech, and Ant Group is connected to a corruption scandal involving Zhou Jiangyong, the former Party secretary of Alibaba’s home city of Hangzhou; Guangdong Province says it has eliminated “hidden local government debt”; German companies pressure Lithuania to back down in China dispute; Chinese media poke fun at the U.S. for 5G service troubles near airports; and more.
China and Russia condemn sanctions, accuse West of ‘politicizing human rights issues’
The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers condemned Western nations for “politicizing human rights issues” with sanctions. Beijing separately lashed out at “the West,” accusing at least half a dozen nations of hypocrisy and saying they had no right to lecture China.
Angela Merkel and Li Keqiang get down to business
As mentioned above, Premier Li Keqiang met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin yesterday, where Reuters says they signed “a raft of commercial accords worth some…
Angela Merkel in Beijing talks driverless cars and trade
Xinhua News Agency’s home page and the top story on central state media (English, Chinese) are about German Chancellor Angela Merkel meeting Xi Jinping in…
China cautions Germany over Aixtron deal halt
A Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson said that a change in Germany’s policy toward Chinese takeovers “would be detrimental to the healthy development of bilateral investment and economic cooperation between China and Germany.”
