#80 Joerg Wuttke on the future of EU-China economic relations

MERICS China Podcast

English - May 29, 2019 13:48 - 1 hour - 43.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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May 29, 2019Only recently international companies have been allowed to start their own major projects in China. The German car builder BMW is for the first time majority shareholder of a joint venture in Shenyang, whereas chemical company BASF announced the investment of 10 billion dollars into a joint project in Guangdong Province. China opens up its market in areas where it could benefit from prestigious partners, says old China hand Joerg Wuttke, BASF China chief representative and newly elected president of the European Chamber in Beijing. Together with Kerstin Lohse-Friedrich and Frank N. Pieke he discusses the latest cooperation, the US-Chinese trade dispute and European-China relations. Listen to the live recording of the MERICS event from May 7 in our latest podcast.