China persecutes the Uyghurs and backs Russia's war in Ukraine. That's prompting Berlin to rethink its relations with Beijing. But this "systemic rival" is also Germany's biggest trading partner.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has resulted in Europe’s biggest economy retreating from the deep-seated pacifism that has shaped the nation’s political life since the horrors of World War II.
German corporate boardrooms are anxious about the economic fallout from any new sanctions against Moscow. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to the White House is therefore shaping up as a delicate mission.
Although global supply chain issues have caused a slump, the latest data shows that German exports surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time in October. Some analysts were cautiously optimistic, others nonplussed.
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