With debate stirring in both the business community and the government, Germany's special relationship with China could be at a breaking point.
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The reporter for Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, cut straight to the chase: “You never plan to get out of the Chinese market, do you?” she asked.
She was addressing Jeffrey Lou, the president and chairman of Greater China at BASF, the German chemical giant, in a televised interview published on October 1, 2022. BASF had just started production at its newest site in China, with the promise to make its largest ever investment of €10 billion there by 2030 — all at a time when many
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