Study says decoupling from China wouldn't spell disaster for the German economy | DW News 

decoupling from your biggest supplier? that's even smartest

@@freethinker5384 I don't think anyone else can have an equal purchasing power like China

@@PatrickF7 cause we're all in debt above our heads

@@PatrickF7 Really. You can't beat all those consumers taking out huge loans to buy non-existent homes.

They won't have it as bad as when China decoupled from its biggest coal supplier (Australia) in the middle of winter.

Whereas, Germany can start making things that China sells in Germany.

Last time I checked industries were closing in Germany.

Thise things that made in China are made by German and other foreign companies.

​@@mattslowikowski3530higher energy cost, higher wages. it won't be competitive. everyone says bring the industry back but no one wants to pay the higher price

@@gudboyngdisyertoGerman wages are way lower than US wages for example, and the US are bringing industry back big time. Energy costs are the driving factor, that has to be adressed.

Well the US isnt going to give germany a choice. They can pick the US or China but the US isnt going to let you trade with both

US just isn’t a reliable partner anymore. Half the country lost its mind in the last ten years.

Of course, Germany could also choose to focus on the market it actually exists in-that is, stop trying to be an export champion, stop imposing self-defeating austerity on itself and other E.U. governments, let a greater share of income flow into the pockets of workers/consumers, and look at excess savings (and trade surpluses!) as just as much an economic burden as too much debt. The reason German firms think they can’t compete with Chinese manufacturers and American tech platforms is that it doesn’t have a massive domestic market to build up scale and Darwinian competition before the winners go global. Or rather, Germany *acts as if it doesn’t have a massive domestic market.* Instead, it uses EU competition policy to beggar its neighbors, like US states squabbling for Amazon HQs or Toyota factories on steroids. There’s an obvious way to sustain demand for German products that’s Trump- and Xi-proof: Support policies that make Greek, Polish, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Baltic consumers richer! Instead of seeing Eastern Europe as cheap labor supply for internal outsourcing of stuff to sell to Americans and rich Asians, view them as sources of untapped demand safe from any trade barriers. A fiscal union that makes the income/spending gap between the poorest and richest E.U. members closer to that between US states benefits German companies and German workers above all. For all America’s toxic polarization, do you ever hear Silicon Valley or Seattle whinge about their tax dollars subsidizing impecunious, backwards Alabamans and Mississippians, like Germans in the euro crisis? No, because it benefits Amazon and Apple-and their well-paid-workers that as many people as possible in their domestic market can afford to buy iPhones and Prime subscriptions at healthy markups. Stop pretending you’re at the mercy of big bad China, Russia, and the US, when it’s German ideological intransigence that’s left Europe so much weaker than the sum of its parts.

hey us army is there❤

Last I checked, the US was not a repressive dictatorship with concentration camps and plans to invade a democratic neighbour, and attempting to upset the Rules-based world order.

That’s diplomacy. By cutting ties Europe lowers it’s risk regarding the inevitable war in the future if China will ever think about expanding its territory. And systemic rival means enemy.

It’s a European channel, I don’t see the problem in DW using their own words, be them “invented” or otherwise.

Of course! It's the West who wants to decouple. It's because China (CCP) is a risky and unequal trading partner.

@@pansepot1490 Is it ok to twist the truth and accuse someone else for it. I guess by exercising this mindset, you are always perfect. Hahaha

@@ANTheWhizkid Statistically china has never been an aggressor even when it was at its prime. That is the fact.

those cars are not made in Germany, they are produced in china. It would be bad for VW, but the effect on Germany would be minimal.

No ICE cars for sale in China from 2024!

​@@thegreatdane3627 minimal? Germany main source of income is from automobile, and vw sell more cars in china than US, africa and middle east combined, LOL, it won't be minimal, german economy would be dead by 2moro.

@@IamHandsome4u if the cars sold in china are also produced in china, that means the loss of jobs and tax revenue would mostly affect china.

@@thegreatdane3627 china will suffer few job losses, while germany will suffer with whole economy going down, and not to forget germany economy is already going down.

Western country’s can NEVER decouple from China, more specifically Western Europe, other countries like the USA, India, Brazil or Indonesia have the resources and growing political power, Europe does not.

India? it imports 100B from China each year and a lot of it to drive its own nascent industries. As for US, would Joe Blow accept paying 5x the amount for his tools from Walmart? Would he accept 10% inflation on goods and his own mortgage? I doubt so. People will come to understand and appreciate what China's large scale manufaturing at low prices did for their middle class lives in the last 4 decades @@beasley1232

Germany could survive everything look after world war two the super productive Germans built their country from wreck to global trade I think 🤔 if they can surmount those challenges what more now which presently they are solid in infrastructure and technology it will just be temporary pain but their freedom from Chinese control is more important

However, there are also sectors where China cannot compensate overnight. Especially the chemical and engineering sectors. In the meantime, many companies would shift their exports to other countries. India in particular will then play a relevant role. Largest population, many resources, closer to Europe via the water route and better communication as many can speak English.

This is what they are talking about.

😆Same as AUS, think tank also fund by Washxngton to keep the German inline.

Enemy China is a enemy to democratic states i'm glad we're finally taking this fact seriously

But the US has been doing that for quite some years as of now. And Russia was sanctioned from all fronts and bannned from using US dollars, ... into an annual growth of GDP by around 3.5%. So classifying one's biggest customer would really work ... and work wonders ..... (to the contrary effect though).

​@@resnica3557 Germany needs China but not vice versa.

These socalled experts more like puppets.

What happenend? We have energy, we have food, we are alife and well. What happened?

What happened? The same happened around the world too but Russia had it worst.

​​@@kinngrimmnothing much happened, Germany was destroyed in world War 2 but bounced back to become one of the worlds top economies. The current situation is nothing more than a walk in the park in comparison. Don't worry too much about Putins boot lickers . Germans have been my best friends and I have worked with them and know what they are capable off, Russians don't come anywhere close.

@@crystal2484 Not trying to be rude or anything, but you are not making any sense.

Exactly and Germany agrees with G7 to sanction China so China will find its own solutions no longer dependent on G7 technology. That's a gradual shift very few people want to acknowledge and lead to the demise of the G7 economies

Let's acknowledge one unspoken fact -- German companies are making good money in Cina. eg. 50% of VW's worldwide profit comes from Cina. The other companies making lots of money: are the DE investment banks, the insurance companies, and the chemical companies. They make money, but they do not directly benefit German workers in German. Decoupling, or derisking as some would like to window-dress it, is a sly political ploy, but it is not a wise move, and it will backfire.

Same as AUS, think tank also fund by Washxngton to keep the German inline.

This report try to _____people. The Netherlands is a middle man, not a market. The Netherlands, a "transit point" for distribution "China"😆

Uncle sam is preparing Europeans for decoupling, so the europeans will have no choice other than manipulated by the US

yes,it's a US dong

@tedwong7037 The Americans do not allow other people to do business very Chinese, only themselves

Sad for the people. 😅0ccupixd sinxe 1'9'4'5 single highest national security issue , when the country leader need to report to other country.

@@happymelon7129 really sad indeed …

China bot.

@@VVayVVard Brainwashed bot?

India has 1.4B citizens too. and India is part of QUAD. Indonesia has the 7th largest population in the world too. And China has territorial dispute with Indonesia in South China Sea. Vietnam is also not on China's side. Australia also has resources (yes, China needs Australian iron ore and coal), and Australia is also part of Five-Eye and also QUAD. Holland, South Korea and Japan has CHIPS, too bad China does not have membership in CHIP-4

😅0ccupixd sinxe 1'9'4'5

Case in point: Scholz

Germany and the EU as a whole is never an independent political entity, they have to do whatever Washington tells them to do, regardless of their own interests.

😅U$A ”step on“ EU to stay afloat.

They defend and have defended Europe , we want to have friends not like Russia.

Of course there is an impact on the German economy from the cut of Russian gas supply. But the German economy is not collapsing. The study predicted an impact but Germany could keep running. Which is exactly what is happening.

🤣🤣🤣 sarcasm. Same as AUS, think tank also fund by Washxngton to keep the German inline.

This report try to _____people. The Netherlands is a middle man, not a market. The Netherlands, a "transit point" for distribution "China"😆

@@danieldevries5203 keep running with what ? Germany went from the richest country in europe to recession in less than 2 years because of Russia and now you want to add a bigger wound To achieve what purpose?

Gas storage is literally full with none of that coming from Russian pipelines and prices are simply up a bit on most products (which is also the case in most countries uninvolved in sanctions). Of course not selling to China will cause unemployment, but assuming we still import some stuff from there (albeit through a proxy maybe) the ramifications won't be massive.

THE FACT YOU NEED TO USE ALL CAPS MEANS YOU ARE A LOUSY BUSINESS MAN, dependence is the magic word, you need to spread your risk or you are in for a rude awakening.

​@@13BulliTsI use different route to work everyday, so I won't be dependent on only one route. 😅

@@cinpeace353 well, sometimes you have to when that's the only route you can afford.

China took all your money and jobs and they still want Taiwan and other things? Talk about greedy. Because China took all the world's jobs and money and that is why everyone else is poor and they tricked everyone into thinking it was the USA's fault. We should never have put all our eggs in 1 basket. Kissinger was dead wrong about giving China all the jobs, money and power so that they would turn into nice guys, let alone a democracy.

You are not a Business Man, you are Uyghur. Their population was reduced by a million recently, yet China says Israel is bad.

It looks that those countries China and Russia wants to plan something together. If China realize that USA and EU has contributed the most to China's growing that will be wise for them. Unfortunately not sure if China works that way and it was not a plan to gain technological and economical advantages and after that to turn the table.

@@user-ek9go3kf2wYou said as if the western didn’t benefit from China’s massive market and low-price products. Decoupling brings pains to both sides.

@@yuzhang5520 Deng Xiaoping was asking Nixon how to feed so many Chinese back then. So as Nixon wanted Russia to be isolated accepted the deal to move capital to China and give some impulse to their economy. Yes, it was economical but not like the West or USA in special could not deal without China. So don't forget things can turn around. China has progressed a lot and should be wise and to not fall for a mad man like Putin.

@user-ek9go3kf2w As a Chinese I need to explain something, China's accession to the WTO is the common will of China and the United States, China needs to develop its economy, and the United States needs China to contain the Soviet Union. Ten years later, the Soviet Union collapsed, and both China and the United States got what they wanted. But China can't always be a sweatshop, making clothes and socks for Westerners, we also need to produce high-tech products. China's current development threatens the economic hegemony of the United States, and the United States without economic hegemony will also lose its military hegemony and eventually lose its leadership position, which is the reason why the United States wants to contain China. China does not want to help Russia in its war, but it can only maintain partial neutrality in its current international relations

Ask China. China wants to replace all Western companies with their and gain significant influence over European, USA, etc.

Sure because the CCP is very nice.

It is more than that. China wants first the "investors" to come and bring technology then after they copy and commit patents theft they build their own factories to compete again the investors at lower prices.Then they demand to sell their products in Europe just to balance their trade. It can't work like this for to long time, it has to stop because will bankrupt the investor .

@@johanneswetzler2861 Ah yes. While we're at it, how about we also stop trading with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Egypt etc. I mean, their governments aren't any better than the CCP...

daddy American of course

no wonder trade with China to ASEAN getting lower year by year. and ASEAN started produce their own goods.. thx to aggressive action in ASEAN region, many foreign companies leaving in China to set up their manufacturing hub in ASEAN region.

Germany isn't fighting a war anywhere, they don't have a military to fight a war with, as America pays the financial cost of handling it's security needs.

​@@ColoniaMurder20where did u get that ? ASEAN TRADE WITH China is growing....

​@@ganboonmeng5370EU ASEAN trade are also growing chinco. And guess where EU will place their factories in?

​​@@ganboonmeng5370it is growing but trade growth rate is declining, ASEAN trade growth rate with rest of world is increasing. I'm even seeing more products made in mexico, India these days

seems to be going just fine...

Yeah the sick man of Europe 😂

@@ashishanand4mechGermany is doing just fine without Russia 🇷🇺 Russia is a failed state anyway.

Yeal, growth next year and “even” with no Russia!! That’s mastery, yes Germany committed mistakes by over relaying on Russia, but it turned it around in less then a year Ohhh and did I forget to tell you.. Germany is now the THIRD LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD!!!!!!! Surpassing Japannnn Best part is never again with Russia, besides Russia is an Asian country that would find better and faster access to other Asian countries

it only more expensive but its was not impossible other countries have oil and gas reserves,if im not mistaken qatar,usa,nigeria are top supplier to europe now, china personally i think is more tricky to decouple because they own minerals,they have a stronghold in the supply chain and beside the usa they are the biggest market for ´western companies´

Then they still blame on others. Very clever people, hahaha

It's the same as saying "we don't need luxuries". Once you're older and less ignorant, you'll understand what they meant.

China get their gas from Russia, but China's economies are also shrinking. And China has depleted its FDI

nope

German is western country

Hegemony ? Are you rustroll or sinotroll ? This is the only explanation

But it was china that forced the decoupling. For US it is just good business sense to move operations to mexico.

orders from the us. nord stream 2 was blown up by u know who and humiliated germany can't say a word.

cause they been ordered to destroy their own lives.

Actually, how do yourself get rid of Cheap Oil? You ban cheap Oil, to buy the more expensive One, just to hurt Russia 😂 Who's hurting who?

I don’t see how you guys always are concerned about Germany and it’s economy. Russia is a poor backwards developing country compared to Germany. 25% of Russians have no access to a canalizations system and have a toilet in a hut 🛖 in their garden. And you want to tell me, that the german economy is a concern ? Because of gas exports from Russia ? 😂😂😂

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you wont die anyway

No, u are confusing it with "wouldnt destroy the economy".

We have no idea what his real job is. US is known to pay institutions to publish their "insights". 😅

the vast majority of Germany's exports are to other European countries. Germany would probably benefit if the EU decouples from china.

The vast of majority of China's "cheap" manufacturing has been exported to Africa. The CCP can't keep manufacturing costs low whilst "raising" standards of living. Even with the slave labour they get from ethnic minorities and political prisoners, labour in China isn't as cheap as it was before.

Germany exports high quality cars, and machine tools and motor parts like bearings etc

@@thegreatdane3627so they’re not doing it because they are just super duper nice right?

@@timpaull9340 Germany and the EU are not actually decoupling from china, at least not yet. At the moment it is more about reducing the dependency a little bit, and trying to level the playing field.

😂😂😂德国之声就像教堂的牧师，他们除了念经，朗读诗歌什么都不会。德国之声应该大胆去调查谁炸了北汽二号，那是德国工业的血管，可被炸后德国居然没人说话。

Lebensraum will help tho

Survival at what price? What living standard will you expect? Survival from famine?🤣🤣

So is China's, and to be honest most countries in the world have poorly performing economies right now.

@@martinogold Investigate before you speak.

They are paid by the US to take Germany to ruin.

Putin caused 300k Russian casualties and caused the currency to collapse.

If you do as the Americans say: ->your economy is destroyed, ->your standard of living drops, ->you are joining a war you don't need to fight, ->against a country who really isn't your enemy ... ----- Colonel Douglas Macgregor.

This report try to fxxl people. The Netherlands is a middle man, not a market. The Netherlands, a "transit point" for distribution "China"😆

The world’s largest chemical manufacturer BASF moved to China this year from Germany. The reason? It could not afford the energy costs since Germany put sanctions on Russian gas and so they had to buy expensive American gas. Now they are buying Russian gas in China, so what was the point. Germany is a puppet of the Americans and does as it is told to the detriment of its own people. Van der Leyden the leader of the European Union is married to an American, she has 7 children and they all live in America. She has American citizenship and was educated in America. How you put someone like that head of a political organisation like the EU is staggering. She does Americas bidding at every turn and is known to be corrupt

German export trade as of 2022. United States 9.8% France 7.4% Netherlands 6.9% China 6.7% Poland 5.8% See More Countries 63.4% China is only 6.7% of German export market. Germany import trade as of 2022. China 13.0% Netherlands 7.1% United States 6.3% Poland 5.2% Italy 4.8% See More Countries 63.5% German imports 13% from China while exporting only 6.7% back to China. Germany will only lose 6.7% MAX of its market if it chooses to decouple. Those loses are extremely negligible.

So many bots.

China is not a big customer.... China (ex)premier Li Keqiang admitted that, 0.6 billion Chinese earn less than 1000 RMB, and 0.9 billion Chinese earn less than 2000 RMB per month. With such low salary (or disposable income) china can never be a big customer.😀😁😂

@@VVayVVard this is exactly what a bot will say

That is true, of course. But if the current development in China continues, very soon neither will they.

i am in indian. Annual Mercedez sales in India 3000 , in china 600000 . I laugh when I hear India will replace china . India 20 years from now will certainly be richer than what it is today , but China is in a different league . US is pissing its pants looking at China's R&D initiatives and is creating all this decoupling Drama .

India and Africa are too poor to afford that. But Chinese consumers buy things made in china so the money that comes to Germany is pretty low in amount. And in most cases it just goes to private companies and doesn't make any difference to the economy in major ways

@@atherzaidi5871 That trade will go either way at the snap of a finger if the CCP wants to hardball on trade. Why trade with someone whos unreliable? It doesn't matter what is coming in if you can't predict how long it'll stay that way.

​@@ShadowPhoenixMaximus u should be thankfull china is not saying the same thing back, otherwise ur economy would be dead.

the point is, that many goods travel over the rotterdam harbour.

Decoupling from other places will soften with more thourogh supply chain ethics and the diversity of people's choices

The Netherlands is a middle man, not a market. The Netherlands, a "transit point" for distribution "China"😆

More important question is "why Germany want to decouple from China " ? need to follow U$A 0rder ? For People interest or politicians interest ? Or for U$A politicians interest ?

@@happymelon7129 Why are you so nervous that germany want to decouple from China.

Or a snuff film.

Germany has been carrying the weight of being a monkey when it comes to foresight. They should and need to do this - they're not carrying a weight of anything here.

Because America says so ?

the ride never ends

Nope. The EU is too weak to decouple from the teat of the U.S.

Germany barely has a functioning military. Good luck without US military might when Russia comes knocking.

The idea of decouple from China is to depend more on US. 😂😂

​​@@gfys756Russia just want to stop the American expansion to the east They are not interested on Central n Western Euro After the Second World War the soviet Union built a iron wall They did not want to have anything to do with the western power

So Europe froze over and you're a popsicle?

​@@ShadowPhoenixMaximusThe point is, the sanctions didn't do anything.

​@gfys756 The sanctions weakened Europe and strengthened Russia. The outcome of the sanctions proved to the global south that getting out from under U.S. hegemony will open doors of opportunity and development.

They are just US' pawn and US don't want German shake hand with Russia or China. But out of their strategy Russia shake hand with China that US feel nervous about their domination of the world

It only took one man. And it all started in 2012. After that year, everything changed.

The Chinese people deserved better. Unfortunately, they didn't get to choose. So they just have to accept whatever happens. Unless, of course, they decide that enough is enough.

是的，为了别国的利益自毁前程是愚蠢的。人类的希望是合作而不是对抗，利用强权不停收割欠发展国家的海盗文化模式归根结底是邪恶的。

@@hellohi3416 China is just not worth Germany to destroy its own future. Germany has better comrades to work with, like Vietnam, India, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. The hope for Germany is to co-orperate with so many countries (like Vietnam, India, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan). Germany should not serve as servant to China.

Chyna bot so tough using a VPN

Not to mention that China is on a WHOLE other level economically

Yes, and just like with Russia the emphasis was that it wouldn't hurt that much, which was largely correct. Germany went into a small recession close to 0%. In the case of China however he said that it would be 5% hit to Germany's GDP.

@@dennisestradda9746 Dude you literally have a photoshopped pic of the Chinese president as your profile picture🤣 if that's not bot activity I don't know what is

​@@dennisestradda9746 says a bot.🤡

Dude did you ever watch the report, LMAO

But China and Chinese want only one voice: CCP's will

@@aa-0731 You guys in Europe should know the normal Chinese people never want to take over the leadership or to be the only one voice. Rather than speculate and argue nonsense about whether the US and China have or will get the only one voice, you should raise Europe's voice and make it louder yourself, that is the way to avoid one voice, and I think China would rather see it.

​@@kaideng8355 LOL Even in your country, a second voice is not allowed. You don't dislike Europe following other's will, you just dislike Europe not following China's will.

​@@aa-0731 That is just what you think and you even changed my words. Whether or not Europe follows China's will doesn't matter. I'm just trying to raise your awareness of your own problem, which is that you're just judging the world according to the ideology from the last century, without any thoughts of your own, commonly known as the lapdogs.

it is Chinese people's choice and non of other country's business...@@aa-0731

Why are you so worried for Germany, you should worry for China's, when there youth are not getting jobs, and work as delivery and dispatch riders.

@@user-jj8kg5ef2tin case you can’t understand the video, it’s about Germany decoupling from China

Half of all luxury cars made in the world in a year, are sold in China. They have enormous wealth with 961 world's billionaires

those cars are produced in china.

@@thegreatdane3627 是的，请德国公司回自已的老家，让中国汽车销往全世界。德国，你死定了，你不是中国的对手。，我是中国人，你对我不仁，我对你不义，加倍奉还给你，北欧野蛮人。欢迎德国对中国脱钩，，这对中国有利，，这个世界不只有G7，还有一百多个国家，都是中国的市场。欢迎德国美国与中国脱钩，让中国更专注提高国内经济循环。这是中国的痛。中国成为了世界的工业奴隶，为世界生产微薄利润的商品。很可悲，但中国的产业都很强，生活确不太好，房价摧毁了一切，是时候改变了。请德国加油尽快与中国脱钩。

@@thegreatdane3627 Ye sbecause is cheaper, what is your point, to buy a car make in germany for 3 times the price haahah? That is exactly the problem at hand, nobody buys europenas product anymore, and you are over 40, so how are you foing to make your economy work?

@@santiagopayan2531 if the cars are produced in china, then it is not a big loss for Germany if they can no longer sell them in china. That is the point.

Descendants of communists can never be honest and smart.

Most ppl have at some point ruled over others

China is still colonising Tibet and East Turkestan.

😂😂😂 indian going crazy

Then you don't even know what a colony is.

By your definition, then so is Japan and S. Korea. These so called colonies such as Germany, Italy, Japan, and S. Korea are all in the top 10 richest countries in the world. If being a colony of the US means you get to be extremely wealthy and have a much higher standard of living than most countries, then it's a pretty damn good deal. N. Korea who is a colony of China isn't doing too good. Mass starvation and defections whenever they get an opportunity. Compared to a 1st world country like S. Korea who is the 10th on highest GDP. What do all the top 40 richest countries have in common? They all have extremely favorable ties to the US. What do all the bottom 30 countries such as N. Korea, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela have in common? They all have negative ties to the US.

This report try to______people. The Netherlands is a middle man, not a market. The Netherlands, a "transit point" for distribution "China"😆

I think somehow DU is getting funding from Americans.They are showing false pro American narratives for almost a year.First we all thought Putin is a culprit and killing poor Ukrainian people.But day by day it become clear it’s a cult business running by handful of Americans and they are looting their taxpayer money in the name of Ukraine aid.There is nothing about humanity in it.And who is suffering most I think Germany’s economy

long OVERDUE

More important question is "why Germany want to decouple from China " ? need to follow U$A 0rder ? For People interest or politicians interest ? Or for U$A politicians interest ?

German's present leaders are American's lackey that always acting as american's lapdogs

@@happymelon7129 Nobody wants to trade with an aggressive foreign dictatorship. They've seen the threats ping has been dishing out to others and would prefer to trade with friendly countries.

@@happymelon7129No, it’s that China is increasingly hostile to foreign businesses including arrest and constantly stealing tech.

Chinese labor is also getting quite expensive

But those things can also be made in cheaper countries than China. And labour is becoming less of a factor due to automation

it's cheaper to build nowadays factories in east Europe than in china, German companies move nowadays to east Europe. No Big shipping costs, and building a strong neighborhood is in the long run more sustainable for Europe as a whole

@@blacky4947 Where will the raw materials come from?

@@justin-kv1jh Portugal and Sweden. They have the largest rare earth minerals in Europe. They discovered it 4 months ago.

It actually fits the description of a depression, a recession means there will be a recovery which isnt happening.

Cutting from China doesn't mean "isolate itself from the rest of the world". If the need of cheap stuff is so great, other countries will step in - Asia, South America, Eastern Europe - many offer cheaper labour. Germans are simply afraid of change. Additionally, of course, folks want to buy cheap stuff. But it's not China, who has "selling power" over Germany. It's the other way around - Germany has the "buying power", as they have the $$$.

Does he believe that China would nationalize German companies within its borders and freeze their funds?

That is exactly what Germany can NOT do. Germany is an industrial powerhouse with decent agriculture and service sectors. But Germany has almost no valuable resources of its own and is dependent on imports that are then refined in Germany into industrial products and exported again at a profit. An isolated Germany would first lose needed resources, and then crash its economy because they wouldn't have anybody to sell to. This is also the reason why Germany is much more interested in diplomatic solutions than for example the US. Which is not a bad thing, unless you believe unilaterally thinking armchair strategists which claim that mutual dependency is a bad thing.

It is just business, it is much more cheaper elsewhere.

@@tucoramirez9557 don't be a fool. Those countries are integrated through various organizations like BRICS. They will not compete under the pressure.

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the harm is that with a lot of stuff being made in China you're dependent on what China does. like during the pandemic, because China put several cities in full lock downs a lot of trade got disrupted which let to a lot of products not being available all over the world. Germany and the EU want to make sure that whatever they need on a daily bases is always available, so they need to manufacture those products in a safe and friendly place (ideally in Europe itself) so they need to move manufacturing out of China and into other places. also China gets increasingly hostile against other Asian nations and if/when that results in war, the West will side with the attacked party. this will result in China trying to lass back and one of their ways of doing that is by halting all trade with the West. so if you prepare for a stop in trade when it happens the hit won't be as hard as it would be without preparing for it. PS. it's not just China that's becoming a more and more erratic trading partner, Europe should try to become (way) less depended on the US to. every time the US holds elections it could do a 180 on everything, including relations with Europe. so Europe should prepare to one day be completely independent of the US (in trade, security and every other field)

From that angle, you may be right. However having said that what you are saying is against globalisation. Every country should manufacture goods themselves. Including China not buying goods from Germany? Do you see what sort inflationary effect this would have on the world economy? From my point of view as long as the products imported from other country is not strategically important, meaning something you could do without or less then it is not a threat.@@ChristiaanHW

The Pope has just in his speech declared Israel's attack on GAZA civilians as terrorist attacks. I don't think I have to tell you that who supply arms to these terrorists. More imporantly does Germany has factories produce arms for the terroists? If so they are your threat.

Not a threat now doesn’t mean not a threat in the future.

It is because Germany is a client state of the US. Can you tell me what the reaction made by the Germans after the US bombed the Nordstream gas pipeline? None. There aren’t any.

@AndyGKaufmanwelcome to reality

Same question I keep asking

They got orders from Washington, you know they are occupied territory of US since 1945.

@@liang8255Germany is not occupied by us Americans Germany is only occupied by the German people Germany governs themselves. A lot of American and European companies are leaving China… China is to expensive and to risky to run operations in the country no one want to do business with China anymore the same thing goes for Russia as well no one wants to do business with them either.

They bought hundreds of billions of machinery, robotics, chemicals and German luxury cars. The bastards.

Pumping money into Russo - Ukraine war. China wants to be a adversary

A few years ago, Australia decoupled agricultural exports with China for the first time, but our Dear G7 friends Canada and the United States seized all the Chinese markets given up by Australia within a month!

De-risking with regard to China and Taiwan are already well underway. The CHIPS Act passed by the US provides for major subsidies to American chipmakers and construction of new factories and enlargement of old ones are now in progress in Phoenix, Arizona, Ohio, upstate New York, Georgia, and other states. Accordingly, much of the sting of a major disruption will be alleviated in 3-5 years. As the guest alluded to, China has far to lose in any disruption than the West does, as it is currently the one running large trade surpluses with the West and also has extremely low levels of domestic demand.

the world is big and the west is not the only market for chinese products. can countries having a long term plan and consistently doing it? I've seen the next administration undo or reverse the previous administration's plan. is china derisking from unfriendly countries: yes, like doubling investment in Vietnam (which also com... county), invest in Hungary, and many others. in short, china will find ways to increase export import surplus, the surplus usually announced in February, I believe this year surplus will increase around 10%.

@@wangyaohan8824 Time will tell, but one thing is clear: no non-democratic country has *ever* escaped the middle income trap.

"their past behavior", you mean their retaliation?

no war between china and taiwan. but someone is deliberately playing the war narrative. who initially rised the idea of decoupling? promoting the war game helps their goal. very smart.

Unfortunately the high level of corruption in China means that product quality will always be hit-and-miss, unless the government relaxes restrictions on whistleblowing and allows members of the public to spread information about problems. Otherwise companies will never have much incentive to improve.

The problem is that the Chinese middle class doesn't spend on consumer goods. The Chinese would rather put their income in failed housing market that is popping right as we speak. Why produce stuff if your domestic market is extremely weak because no one in China spends? Edit - the median income to housing parity in China is 2/3. That means the Chinese spend 66% of their income on housing leaving only 33% for everyday use such as groceries, etc. In the US, it's 1/3 so the middle class has a much higher consumer consumption.

China is already planning to invade another nation.

However many necessary since no European country is going to turn its back on its roots and shared European heritage for short-term profits.

More years on stagflation.