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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.
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).