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Does China rule the world?

Nina Haase
December 6, 2024

China is already calling some major shots on European trade and security. Where that leaves Germany as Europe’s largest economy is at the core of this week’s Berlin Briefing podcast. We map out how Germany’s chancellor and foreign minister still have profoundly different views of the relationship Germany should have with China.

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This fuels indecision between cooperation and rivalry and meets Chinese pro-trade “pragmatism”, a strategy DW’s Taiwan Bureau Chief Tsou Tzung Han warns could leave Germany’s security interests unaddressed. DW’s Chief Political Editor Michaela Küfner hosts this edition of the Berlin Briefing podcast, and - together with DW's Chief International Editor Richard Walker - unpacks some tough policy questions on China which the next German government will have to address.

Key discussions include:

  1. Why there is and isn’t a link between Taiwan and Ukraine
  2. How China’s silence on supporting Russia serves both sides
  3. Why trade often trumps security concerns on China
  4. How Germany’s role in Asia is limited
  5. Why German diplomats are so impressed with China’s official lunch
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