China has rebuked "ridiculous", and Germany also said

Will the German Economic Ministry of Economic Affairs reduce dependence on China? After the Chinese side pointed out that "if it is real, it is very ridiculous", foreign media also reported the German response.

According to a Russian satellite news agency reported on September 10, whether Germany would "screen" the German company that cooperated with China and cooperated with China, the German Ministry of Economic A spokesman Robert Säverin on the 9th A response said: "I can't confirm this point about Germany's investment in China or will be monitored."

Savilin said that Germany's political and economic goal is to allow German companies to diversify the relations between countries such as foreign economic investment and China.

On September 8, Reuters quoted two people familiar with the matter, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the German Economic was considering taking a series of measures to reduce the attraction of doing business with China to reduce Germany's dependence on this Asian economic superpower.

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People familiar with the matter said that these measures may include reducing or even canceling investment and export guarantees for China, and no longer promote the China Trade Exhibition and Management Training. German national policy banks may be directed to projects in other Asian countries such as Indonesia to achieve diversification of trade. One of the sources also claimed that the German Ministry of Economic Affairs not only considered reviewing Chinese companies investing in Germany, but also reviewing German companies to invest in China.

In addition, another source said that the German government was considering to complain to the World Trade Organization with the World Trade Organization with the "unfairness" of China's "unfairness" trade behavior with the Seventh Kingdom Group (G7).

A spokesman for the German Ministry of Economic Affairs refused to comment on these specific measures at the time, but stated that they were reviewing targeted measures, "diversifying (trade and supply chain) to enhance adaptability."

On September 9th, a question about the reporter of Reuters about "the German Economic Affairs of the Economic Affairs of Germany would take measures to reduce dependence on China." Mao Ning, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded, "I don't master the situation you said. But if you say it is true, I can only say that the relevant measures of Germany have no logic and very ridiculous. These measures have no benefits in terms of the economic development of Germany itself or pragmatic cooperation between China and Germany. "

Mao Ning said that no matter how the international storm changes, China's determination to persist in expanding the high level of openness will not change, and the determination to share development opportunities with the world will not change. The determination to develop in the direction will not change. I also believe that the attractiveness of foreign investment in the Chinese market will only become larger and larger.

The spokesman emphasized that we hope that Germany can adhere to the rational and pragmatic policy of China, inject positive energy for the high -level mutual benefit cooperation and maintaining open -type world economy by expanding the two -way openness, instead of moving to stones and smashing their feet. Essence

The Reuters report also wrote that former German Prime Minister Merkel often visits China with large -scale corporate delegations to witness the prosperity of Sino -German economic relations. In 2016, China became Germany's largest trading partner. Last year, China -Germany trade exceeded 245 billion euros, which helped promote the growth of this largest economy in Europe. In the export -oriented German economy, German automakers are particularly open in the Chinese market. Among them, about half of Volkswagen's profits come from China. Germany and Europe also depend on China on certain raw materials, such as rare earth.

For some media hype, Germany tightened the policy of China, and more and more German Enterprise and Enterprise Association publicly expressed concerns, calling on to promote the diversification of trade, rather than taking confrontation measures for such an important market.

"We can't beolate China." Hildegard Mueller, the head of the German Automobile Industry Association (VDA), told the media, "This is naive and catastrophic in politics and economy."

Source: Observer.com

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