Germany’s Scholz: The way we deal with China must change, politico.eu

Berlin must change the way it deals with China as the country lurches back toward a more openly ”Marxist-Leninist” political trajectory, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote in an op-ed on Thursday.

In his article for POLITICO and the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Scholz defended his trip to China on Thursday but stressed that German companies would need to take steps to reduce ”risky dependencies” in industrial supply chains, particularly in terms of ”cutting-edge technologies.” Scholz noted that President Xi Jinping was deliberately pursuing a political strategy of making international companies reliant on China. Läs artikel