Europe Must Cut Down on Its Dependence With China, Baerbock Says

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the European Union must reduce its reliance on China and that she supports the EU’s investigation into the subsidies Beijing supplies its electric-vehicle industry.

“If you are bound too closely it can endanger yourself,” Baerbock said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Sunday. She added that “cutting down on our dependency” was necessary with a country like Russia that invaded Ukraine, “but also now with regard to China.”