{"id":420499,"date":"2025-09-13T07:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420499\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:17:15","slug":"germanys-bavaria-open-to-chinese-investment-despite-eu-tensions-state-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420499\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Bavaria open to Chinese investment despite EU tensions, state minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fifty years ago, Christian Social Union in Bavaria chairman Franz Josef Strauss visited Beijing, becoming the first West German politician to meet Chinese leader Mao Zedong.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to German media reports, the late conservative politician sent a postcard to Helmut Schmidt, Germany\u2019s chancellor at the time and head of the rival Social Democratic Party, saying \u201cBeijing is worth a trip.\u201d Schmidt became the first German leader to visit China later that year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A half-century later, the roles have been reversed; China has come to Bavaria.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/global-economy\/article\/3316945\/china-levy-anti-dumping-tariffs-european-cognac?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">rising tensions<\/a> between China and the European Union \u2013 with Brussels increasingly uneasy about Beijing\u2019s growing economic presence on the continent \u2013 investment from the East Asian powerhouse is still welcome in the German state, Bavarian Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger told the Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">While acknowledging the need for Europe to build greater economic resilience and self-sufficiency, Aiwanger said protectionism and isolationism were not the answer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis applies to China just as it does to other major economies with which we maintain close relations, such as the USA or Japan \u2026 we continue to welcome the many Chinese companies that invest in Bavaria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifty years ago, Christian Social Union in Bavaria chairman Franz Josef Strauss visited Beijing, becoming the first West&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2182,38587,3801,2183,11330,1395,94574,1305,2000,299,1699,1824,143849,1197,16760,143850,479,143848,10361,143851],"class_list":{"0":"post-420499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-audi","9":"tag-bavaria","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-bmw","12":"tag-brussels","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-investment","15":"tag-electric-vehicles","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-germany","20":"tag-hubert-aiwanger","21":"tag-investment","22":"tag-munich","23":"tag-nio","24":"tag-tariffs","25":"tag-tarriffs","26":"tag-xiaomi","27":"tag-xpeng"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115195769256645399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}