Staking out its claims on every continent with its sprawling belt and Road Initiative impacting how most every country does business officials in beijing a setting the Global Standards in tech they drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the upper hand with an immense amount of financial firepower but chinas also highly secretive bad restrictive the question is is china more of a partner old rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the world to lead an International Investment and allow for a level Playing Field german executives ive spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on investment for 7 years now but after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. The skyscrapers a friend high have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German C