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Comment: Together or alone?

For the ninth Time the German Chancellor to China has visited. Difficult to Meet this time, it was said in advance. The Chinese policy had become more self-confident. This opens up new paths, find Dagmar Engel.

You could write this comment as in the past eight Visits by the Chancellor in Beijing: you mentioned the human rights sufficiently clearly, she has met with endangered artists and lawyers, has endorsed the new repressive NGO laws, has called for free market access for foreign investors, has criticized the Overcapacity and dumping prices of Chinese steel industry? She has.

A step in a new direction

This is the present. The future flashes in unexpected places – in the final Declaration. In Chapter II, it is because the “cooperation in third countries and on third markets”. In Afghanistan, the first trilateral project, in which Germany and China are involved in running – in disaster protection and in the case of a high-school co-operation in the mining industry. This looks like a small step for China, however, prosecuted otherwise strictly to a policy of Non-interference, it is one in a new direction. The idea of the German in: China include and weight. In the nuclear negotiations with Iran in the works already.

Dagmar Engel is head of the DW – capital Studio

The market makes a new Dimension

In the case of the cooperation on third markets, the idea of the Germans: China is integrating its economy power and make money. Just as an example: If the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) and Siemens drive with high-speed trains jointly on third markets, flanked by the China Railways group and the Deutsche Bahn AG in the areas of Chinese-European line freight transport, high speed train operating and maintenance – then arises as a market makes a new Dimension.

Then the even more distant future. Because the Chinese also have ideas: technology-Transfer, from the better Image of the German in third markets to learn, earn money and then go ahead alone. Could happen. The pattern would correspond to the mourning of German entrepreneurs often.

To prevent, can not succeed alone. The European Union would have been big enough for that, you would have to, however, a joint China strategy. At the Moment, everyone is concerned first for themselves, and China knows how to use it. And only because of respect for Angela Merkel and the economic Powerhouse Germany is comparatively large, this does not mean that the targets look different. Divide and rule – the EU should have to oppose-government leaders including the German Chancellor, something: Together, we are not to beat.

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