New OZ: Comment on German-Chinese economic partnership
23.04.2012/XNUMX/XNUMX Osnabrück - The country has no choice
Angela Merkel and Wen Jiabao unanimously swear to the German-Chinese economic partnership. Politicians from both countries actually always do that when they visit each other - usually with large business delegations in tow. So business as usual? Not quite.
This time, their gathering is marked by urgent technological advances in the industrial use of resources. China's industry is developing a hunger for raw materials that pushes the world to its limits. German companies are leaders in technologies and processes that help make industrial manufacturing more resource efficient, and China is very interested in it.
There is, as also yesterday in Hanover, legitimate criticism of the close integration of German companies with the Chinese state economy. In China, people are abused and executed by the state.
But as bitter as it is, Germany can admonish, but it has no choice. It must work closely with China and, with everything it has, help China's economy use less energy and production resources. In your own interest. For the sake of the world.
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