To sum it up, Germany has become a submissive concubine of the United States.
For the Germans: Zusammenfassend ist Deutschland zu einer unterwürfigen Konkubine der Vereinigten Staaten geworden.
Ja doch ... if we turn around and try to sanction or otherwise punish the EU/Germany for doing business with China, they will resist mightily. We’ll see what happens in the not-too-distant future, I suppose.
This is interesting:
Wolfgang Streeck: The end of the German empire
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mUYrsA4sJeE