Berlin
At the Bundestag, Annalena Baerbock announced the color.
Facing the Foreign Affairs Committee, the environmental minister and head of German diplomacy expressed last June her desire to “
create more distance and reduce dependence
” of her country vis-à-vis China.
This strategy is reflected in a 59-page document drafted by the Foreign Office and revealed by
Der Spiegel
.
This first draft of a global reflection project on the country's national security has, it seems, opportunely leaked in the wake of Olaf Scholz's controversial trip to the Chinese capital earlier this month.
In a context of rising geopolitical tensions with Beijing, Germany theorizes, for the first time in six years, the relationship with its first trading partner.
BASF's warning
The Middle Kingdom is its first supplier and its second export market, on which a million jobs across the Rhine depend directly.
But the evolution of China…
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