Mikko Huotari is the executive director of MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies), the Berlin-based think tank. He is an expert on China’s foreign policy, global and economic governance and competition, as well as China-Europe relations. He is the co-author of several publications, including Chinese FDI in Europe (2018), and Emerging Powers and Change in the Global Financial Order (2014). Prior to joining MERICS, Huotari taught at the University of Freiburg, where he earned his PhD. He has also worked at the German-Chinese Law Institute in Nanjing, the German Embassy in Beijing and the German Council on Foreign Relations.
Mikko Huotari. Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: We've seen some pretty major developments in German foreign policy since the conflict in Ukraine began in February. How has this, in turn, shifted the stance of Germany, and the EU more broadly, towards China?
A: Not too much yet in practice, but that is first of all, it's a question of capacity. German
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