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8 Jan, 10 tweets, 4 min read
The Economist has highlighted the considerable exposure to the Chinese market among leading German companies. Judging from their CEOs public statements, this is not going to change any time soon. A short thread /1

economist.com/business/2021/…
Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss /2

"We never considered to move away from China. We strengthened our China production, especially as an example for the modules for electromobility, and will continue to do so."

cnbc.com/2020/09/23/cnb…
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess /3

"Our company stands for a globalized world with over 650.000 employees, over 100.000 of them in China. Over one fourth of the Volkswagen Group’s plants are located in China."

volkswagenag.com/en/news/storie…
President and CEO of BMW Group Region China Jochen Goller /4

"All of our investments we committed will continue, and we are actually discussing investing more in China in the future"

chinadaily.com.cn/a/202005/18/WS…
Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted /5

"Rorsted said Adidas would 'invest heavily' in China, where he saw huge long-term potential. The firm is on track to add 2,000 stores in China and hit 12,000 by 2020"

uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/adidas-ce…
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser /6

“As a long-term and well-established partner of China and its industries, we support the call of the Belt and Road initiative and take another solid step forward on a larger scale and a wider scope"

bilaterals.org/?germany-s-sie…
BASF CEO Martin Brudermüller /7

“We are pleased to see our mega-investment project in China is progressing”

basf.com/global/en/medi…
Daimler CEO Ola Källenius /8

"China remains a large part of the potential pool for carmakers and certainly for Mercedes-Benz. It is a market that we will continue doubling down on and increasing our footprint in"

iccsino.com/news/show-htm-…
Bayer CEO Werner Baumann /9

"We have been in China since 1882, and our future growth prospects are closely linked to the market"

europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-08…
Journalists should ask CEOs of these big German corporations about the long-term implications of being overexposed to one particular market. How do they avoid unhealthy dependencies? And can they monitor their supply chains in China and ensure that there is no forced labour? /End

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Going native could be part of the problem, as MNCs can become entangled in the Chinese political bureaucracy /1

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I just re-read Professor Auer's @stefanauer_hku fascinating research article "Merkel’s Germany and the European Union: Between Emergency and the Rule of Rules".

His article can help us understand Merkel's advocacy of the highly controversial #CAI /1

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Western liberal democracies do not have to chose between naive China engagement or blind confrontation.

Western politicians and policymakers have repeated this false dichotomy ad nauseam.

Let me explain why this *binary and reductionist approach to China policy* is flawed /1
Unconditional China engagement is naive since under the conditions of increasing CCP censorship western dialogue with China is no longer free & open-ended. Cooperation with China does not deserve this name when Europeans cannot select their cooperation partners & topics freely /2
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This was rather predictable. Following the publication of @edwardlucas Weekend Essay in @thetimes colleagues of mine have received malicious email communications which attempt to smear my professional reputation. 1/10

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The Times has published a thought-provoking editorial titled 'Safeguarding Scholarship'. It references the guidelines 'Managing risks in Internationalisation: Security related issues', which were published by @UUKIntl today 1/10

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12 Oct 20
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Over 100 leading scholars have called for a united front in defence of academic freedoms amid increasing pressure from the Chinese government since the passing of Hong Kong’s National Security Law. 1/32

theguardian.com/education/2020…
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