More than half of surveyed German firms plan deeper ties with local partners in China to match the rapid innovation cycles of domestic competitors, the German Chamber of Commerce has found.
Make no mistake, German “firms” are not and never will be China’s “friends.” They’re not even Germany’s friends. This is just a further extension of the West’s outsourcing of labour to China, a decidedly one sided relationship where any benefit to China is a happy accident at best and a terrible side effect at worst in the eyes of German businesspeople.
As in the German bourgeoisie.
Make no mistake, German “firms” are not and never will be China’s “friends.” They’re not even Germany’s friends. This is just a further extension of the West’s outsourcing of labour to China, a decidedly one sided relationship where any benefit to China is a happy accident at best and a terrible side effect at worst in the eyes of German businesspeople.