Bundestag expert commission warns of “escalatory measures by China”

Restrictions on access to the European internal market are “a central lever in view of China’s export-driven economic model”. The commission includes representatives from business, trade unions and scientists. The report is available to WELT AM SONNTAG.

According to the paper, the experts consider the strategy of seeing China as a “partner, competitor and systemic rival” to have failed: “From the perspective of Germany and Europe, rivalry and growing risks overshadow other aspects of the relationship too much.” Beijing's willingness and ability to use economic dependencies as a means of pressure is growing. “China is deliberately building up leverage and has shown on several occasions that it is willing to use them.”