Before the strategy was adopted: Home Secretary Nancy Faeser, Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius, Foreign Secretary Annalena Baerbock and Building Minister Klara Geywitz
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The government has presented the first comprehensive China strategy. She wants to reduce economic dependencies. Germany is not naive, emphasizes the Foreign Minister.
The demands on the China strategy are great. “We are thus facing the challenges that have arisen from China’s behavior over the past ten years,” says Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens). “And we show ways and instruments how Germany can work together with China in the heart of Europe without endangering our free democratic basic order, without endangering our prosperity and our partnership with other countries in this world.” Germany is realistic, but not naive. Whether the first comprehensive China strategy by a federal government can live up to this claim is another question.
Julia Loehr
Business correspondent in Berlin.
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Baerbock speaks on the federal government’s China policy at the Mercator Institute for China Studies on Thursday, just minutes after the cabinet approved the strategy. Ironically, at the think tank, which has already felt the effects of Chinese sanctions.