{"id":6309,"date":"2021-10-07T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2021-10-07T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:50:20","slug":"the-reasons-for-germanys-dependence-on-china-and-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"The Reasons for Germany&#8217;s Dependence on China and Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Germany&#8217;s relationship with China poses complex problems in Germany and the European Union&#8217;s relations with the United States in general, and given that the United States and the AUKUS alliance have identified China as their main enemy. At the same time, Germany is backing Turkey, despite Turkey&#8217;s aggressive policies culminating in the purchase of the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft \/ anti-ballistic missile system, provoking US anger, and the US continuing to impose sanctions on Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Germany-China: love and money are not hidden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the current decade, the sales of the pillar industry of the German economy, the German car industry, have skyrocketed and show great growth potential in China&#8217;s huge market. As a result, the huge sales of the German car industry for the period (2014-2020) amounted to 774000 units. This is why China has become the most important market for Germany compared to the US market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More specifically, during this period the annual sales of the German car manufacturers are composed of the following percentages of sales only to the Chinese market and always in relation to their total sales. \u039ff their total annual sales, the following percentage is only for the Chinese market: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mercedes-Benz 37,9%<\/li><li>Audi                     42,7%<\/li><li>BMW                    34,7%<\/li><li>VW                       49,3%<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is that these market shares in China will increase further over time. That is why it is binding on German politics because of the very strong lobby of the German car industry, which can also lead to changes of government. The German carmaker&#8217;s billions in profits from China is the &#8220;safety cushion&#8221; that will help the German carmaker move smoothly from internal combustion engines to the age of electrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Germany-Turkey: &#8220;love&#8221; of centuries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkey is another market in which Germany has huge interests. Germany is Turkey&#8217;s strongest and best trading partner, as evidenced by the value of bilateral trade, which so far in 2021 exceeded 40 billion euros compared to 37 billion euros in 2020. More than 7,000 German companies operate in Turkey. In addition, due to the refugee problem that Turkey manages at will, the opening of these refugee flows can cause strong political problems for German governments, as the past showed during (2015-2016) when Germany opened its borders to a million refugees. However, Germany has the same attitude \/ relationship with Russia for its energy security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s relationship with China poses complex problems in Germany and the European Union&#8217;s relations with the United States in general, and given that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,390],"tags":[161,489,143],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","tag-china","tag-germany","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6311,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions\/6311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}