• bridgeburner@lemmy.world
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    Germanys current economy ain’t great, tho. Been in a recession the last few years. And exports to China are shrinking as well.

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      2 个月前

      Is Germany’s economy based on exports to China? I feel like Germany’s problems, like other European countries, lie else where

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        2 个月前

        Well, the US is going insane with tariffs, our gas delivering country is running amok in Ukraine and our biggest cars importer decided to build cars themselves. So… Yes… Things have changed.

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        Well, germanys economy is not solely reliant on exports to China, but they are significant nonetheless. Historically, we used to export a lot of cars to China, but ever since the EV boom german car manufacturers struggle because China heavily subsidizes its own car industry, making domestically produced cars much cheaper than the imported german ones. And technologically, China becomes ever more advanced so it increasingly doesn’t need to import engineering equipment/machinery from germany as well.

        But yeah, the decreasing exports are just one of many problems of germanys current economy.

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          This is really informative, thanks for taking the time to reply.

          Of course, I am not kicking Germany as many countries find themselves in difficult times.