German Frontrunner Merz Warns Companies Against China Investment

Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner in the race to be Germany’s next chancellor, warned domestic companies against making bigger investments in China.

“The decision to invest in China is a decision with great risk,” Merz said at a foreign policy event in Berlin Thursday. “If you take this risk, do it in such a way that it doesn’t endanger the entire company group if you have to write off this investment from one year to the next.”