Finance
German finance minister warns against quick decoupling from China
BERLIN, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Germany should scale back its dependence on China regularly as decoupling from the Chinese language market would prices jobs in Europe’s greatest financial system, Finance Minister Christian Lindner was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Germany is engaged on a brand new China technique that takes a extra sober view of relations and goals to scale back dependence on Asia’s financial superpower, which has been the nation’s prime buying and selling companion since 2016.
“Decoupling our financial system from the Chinese language market wouldn’t be within the curiosity of jobs in Germany,” Lindner was quoted as saying by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
He mentioned that regularly different world areas and markets must change into extra essential for German enterprise over the approaching years and many years, Welt reported.
“The political circumstances should be improved for this,” Lindner mentioned.
Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, modifying by Emma-Victoria Farr
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