According to Observer.com , before visiting China, German Chancellor Scholtz posted a post in German media about this trip to China that the world needs China, and Germany needs China. Scholz said that it has been three years since former German Prime Minister Merkel visited China before. In three years, the regional and global situations have been changing constantly, and direct dialogue between China and Germany has become more important. With the strengthening of China's national strength and the changes in the world situation, Germany needs to change its approach to China, but China has always been an important trading partner of Germany and Europe, and Germany will not decouple from China. The idea that some people want to isolate China seems insignificant in the face of the history and current facts of China's development. Scholz stressed that the German government had previously allowed COSCO Shipping to hold 24.9% of the shares of Hamburg Port Fudi Terminal, which also reflects the basic position of Germany and EU to promote trade diversification rather than trade protectionism .
German Chancellor Scholz will conduct an official visit to China on November 4. The presidents of 12 major German companies such as Volkswagen and BASF were with Scholz. This shows that unlike the German political circles' disputed attitude towards Scholz's visit, the German business circles showed an enthusiastic and positive attitude towards Scholz's visit. As a representative of the German business community, Vanceleben, chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, pointed out that without China, the German economy would be more depressed and the German people would be poorer.
China has been Germany's largest trading partner in the past six years. Germany has maintained a continuous increase in export scale to China, supporting Germany's economic prosperity in the past decade. Germany is one of the main beneficiaries of China's development. Looking at Germany's economic development from a longer span, we can find two main lines of Germany's economic development in the past 10 years. One is that Russia-German Nord Stream Energy Cooperation provides stable and cheap energy supply for Germany's industrial development, allowing Germany to expand its industrial scale without worries. The other is that the rapidly expanding Sino-German trade cooperation provides sufficient terminal export market and primary processed products import market for Germany's economic growth.
At the moment, the United States is harvesting Germany, and the United States is also attacking these two German economic foundations at the same time. Whether it is the Nord Stream pipeline being blown up by an "unknown country" or some German politicians pushing the decoupling and chain breaking from China, it obviously plays a role in forcing the German economy into a "desperate situation" so that it can only "evacuate" to North America. This US plan is particularly evident in the cooperation between COSCO Shipping and Hamburg Port. According to reports, anonymous senior US State Department official revealed that the United States is ensuring that European allied parliaments "carefully review" Chinese-owned enterprises' related investments and take action. Another US official said that the US Embassy in Germany clearly opposes Chinese companies' investment in the Fudi Pier of Hamburg Port. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian commented on the news that the US should neither attack nor be qualified to interfere in the cooperation between the two major sovereign states of China and Germany. US officials are complacent about interfering in German internal affairs, which shows the hegemony of the US.
German's current economic crisis was triggered by the US's hegemony and profit-making attempt. German companies actively support Scholz's visit to China, which is a self-rescue move. Only China has the ability to efficiently undertake the industrial capacity of Germany that cannot be maintained due to the energy crisis. Seeking China-Germany to expand cooperation is the only way for German companies to maintain their global market. In the first half of this year alone, German companies invested more than 10 billion euros in China, while in the second half of the year, the investment scale of the integrated chemical plant invested by German chemical giant BASF in Zhanjiang, China reached 10 billion euros. China's exports of cost-effective goods to Germany have significantly curbed Germany's inflation index, and the exports of German automobiles and other industrial products to China have supported a considerable portion of Germany's export revenue. At the time of global change, the expanded Sino-German cooperation will inevitably inject more stable factors into the regional situation.