Posted on 07/05/2014 2:38:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to China this weekend for her seventh visit, eager to deepen trade and investment ties between the export powerhouses of Europe and Asia.
For the EU’s biggest economy, China is a crucial mass market, where companies want its technology and millions of newly prosperous crave German goods from Audi sedans to luxury home appliances. […]
China is Germany’s number-two export market outside Europe after the United States. It sold goods worth €67 billion to China last year, while imports from the Asian giant topped €73 billion. …
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This “gesture of camaraderie is being stared at all over the world with arched eyebrows and furrowed foreheads. Except for over here in the states. Obama remains blissfully ignorant of any occurrances that cannot be seen in his handheld mirrors.
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