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Klingbeil has floated mandatory joint ventures for non-European companies to ensure technology transfer — a strategy China itself has used for decades to extract know-how from foreign companies seeking access to its market. A reform package introduced by the coalition in early July included such a push and other measures aimed at strengthening Germany’s economic sovereignty and resilience.
“The objective is not to cut China off from technology forever,” Tordoir said in an interview. “The objective is to show that Germany has teeth, to remind Beijing that China also has critical dependencies on Europe.
Good, because that won't be the outcome either
These racist dinosaurs need to stop sniffing their own farts.
China is far beyond anything Europe has been throughout its history. Its not even close.
Europe's future is being the quaint, terrible weathered, forgotten corner of the world. Sooner they make peace with that, the sooner they can start preparing to take care of their citizens
It would be satisfying if China sanctioned Europe to prohibit dual use technology export and used the reasoning that Europe is a garden and should be kept that way. Just outright tell Europe you're just an ignorant backwater, stop trying to be something you're not (a world power of any significance).
Complete italianization 🤌