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> In the case it does, it would be over Taiwan, not over a writer. I don't think the parent post is implying they'll do anything over a writer. But there is si
by jeswin 5y ago
> In the case it does, it would be over Taiwan, not over a writer.
I don't think the parent post is implying they'll do anything over a writer. But there is significant awareness now regarding the threat CCP poses.
Last week Lithuania recalled their ambassador to China, and they're urging EU to cut dependence on China. Post-Merkel Germany might take a stronger stance against China, going by what their leaders are saying of late.
- mschuster91 5y agoGerman here. At the moment, our government is bought out by the automotive industry which has achieved market saturation... the only markets they can grow is China and India. That changing entirely depends on who wins the election in a month. If it will be Red-Green (Social Democrat + Greens) or Red-Red-Green (Socialists + Social Democrat + Greens), it might very well be that we will cutting down the influence of the automotive lobbyists... but if we end up with the free-market liberals (FDP, yellow) or, worse, the endemically corrupt Conservatives (CDU/CSU, black) we will keep on bowing to the whims of everyone who can't grow in the Western markets. For everyone in Germany: please vote. This election is crucial.
- ChemSpider 5y agoI am as critical of the German car industry as you are. And with their dependence on the Chinese market they are in a really miserable situation. But as so often, things are not that easy and are more grey than black and white: The liberals (FDP) are among the biggest supports of closer contacts to Taiwan, while some parts of the Socialists (Die Linke) argue that the Tiananmen Square massacre did not happen.
- mschuster91 5y agoThe FDP will fold in the way that lines their pockets, I don't have an ounce of trust in them - and I didn't forget their "besser nicht regieren als falsch regieren" either. Regarding the tankies in our leftie rows... you are completely correct and I hope that in an R2G coalition the foreign ministry ends up at someone from the Greens. SPD botched it the last time with Maas and we have too many questionable comrades to fill that job with someone guaranteed sane...
- beaunative 5y agoTake it as concrete examples if you want, but the sentence was meant to demonstrate the scale of things and how they might impact governmental decisions, which gives heavy weight to a lot of things, but not as much as you might expect to human rights issues and national values.