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Andreas Fulda 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 Profile picture
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Sep 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Why is it taking so long for the German government to abandon its failed China policy of 'change through trade'? A thread 1/11
When it comes to the People's Republic of China (henceforth #China), the German government has largely engaged in foreign trade promotion (Außenwirtschaftsförderung) 2/11
In his PhD thesis Norbert Schultes has pointed out that in foreign trade promotion the German government has let the private sector take the lead, which explains the highly corporatist approach 3/11

edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9049/1/Schulte…
This makes foreign policy change through legislative means much harder, as the German government has essentially outsourced its foreign policy to the private sector 4/11

soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/ch…
Outsourcing foreign policy to the private sector has also meant that corporate propaganda has always loomed large in the German public discourse about China 5/11
To justify trade and investments with an authoritarian China corporate lobbyists have for decades hyped the significance of the Chinese market for Germany’s traditionally export-oriented economy 6/11

wz.de/politik/inland…
German media has often uncritically amplified such corporate propaganda 7/11

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I recently discussed this problem with a German media professional. In this conversation it became clear to me that groupthink contributed to this rather unfortunate practice among journalists 8/11

corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/care…
Germany's outdated China policy will only change if politicians and parliamentarians reassert the central role of the state and strengthen both democratic security and industrial policy 9/11

dgap.org/en/research/pu…
Academics and journalists should play their part by deconstructing both government and corporate propaganda which hypes the significance of China's market for Germany's export-oriented economy 10/11

Last but not least German citizens should take note of the totalitarian turn in Xi's China and demand an end to Germany's failed China policy of 'change through trade' /End

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