Germany Wants to Team Up With Japan in Securing Raw Materials
- Scholz to visit Tokyo with ministers, executives next month
- Ruling coalition wants to avoid excessive reliance on China
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Germany wants to intensify cooperation with Japan to help secure supplies of raw materials as part of a wider effort to make supply chains more resilient and avoid over-reliance on single countries.
Raw-material security and linking the two nations’ strategies will be top of the agenda at upcoming talks with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday during a visit to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Hanover.