Germany’s Federal Statistical Office released figures on Friday showing that China is back on top as the country’s most important market with €251bn (£219bn) in trade in 2025, up 2.2% on 2024 when the US was the country’s leading export destination.
Germany’s Federal Statistical Office released figures on Friday showing that China is back on top as the country’s most important market with €251bn (£219bn) in trade in 2025, up 2.2% on 2024 when the US was the country’s leading export destination.
I don’t see how this would be “bad” for Germany. It really makes no difference which authoritarian state is in first place, except that the US has proven to be much more unpredictable than China in recent months.
Trading one outside power for another is what’s bad. The good solution is to build a group of nations that work together in parity.
Better trading partner than the US doesn’t mean good trading partner
It’s pretty amazing how quickly the US speed-ran through decades of anti-communist & anti-China propaganda.
It never left. They just changed from
“oh man these communist are so evil. Look at how little they pay their workers. We’re forced to move all our industry there.”
to
“Oh man, these Chinese “stole” all of our shit when we moved our entire industry to their country to exploit cheap labor and now they are ‘cheating’ by beating us at capitalism by doing communism too hard.”
It’s not worse but also not good. Would be better to rely more on a strong Europe.