{"id":985361,"date":"2026-05-26T06:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/985361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:59:15","slug":"germanys-china-problem-and-why-de-risking-hasnt-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/985361\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s China problem \u2013 and why de-risking hasn&#8217;t worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email<\/p>\n<p>Dan Wang of Eurasia Group discusses the paradox of Europe&#8217;s current trade strategy, noting that Germany&#8217;s efforts to &#8220;de-risk&#8221; over the past years have actually deepened its reliance on China&#8217;s supply chain. She highlights the growing tension for German corporate giants like Volkswagen and BASF, who are expanding their manufacturing footprint in China to tap into third-country markets even as they face mounting political pressure and layoffs at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Dan Wang of Eurasia Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":985362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[108779,3085,2000,299,1824,5488,8507,273916],"class_list":["post-985361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-basf-se","tag-business-news","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-neutral","tag-siemens-ag","tag-volksvermogen-nv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116639587755848534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985361","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=985361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}