Germany is under attack from China, a senior opposition MP has warned, as Berlin grapples with a fresh wave of cyber attacks and espionage plots.

Politicians and experts push for reduced reliance on Beijing as Berlin ‘would not and could not evade’ economic fallout of Taiwan invasion

In response to the warning from Friedrich Merz, German Christian Democratic candidate for chancellor, who warned of “great risks” for companies investing in China, Mao Ning, spokesperson from China’s Foreign Ministry,

China has rapidly surpassed Germany and Japan in industrial robotics, leading the world with 470 robots per 10,000 employees in 2023.

A poll suggests that Germans who get their news from TikTok, rather than traditional media, are less critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It comes amid a debate over shutting down the Chinese platform in the US.

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The leader of Germany's main opposition party has caused upset by saying he will bring proposals for an instant change to the country's immigration laws before parliament this week, days after an Afghan asylum seeker was arrested following a fatal double stabbing in the southern city of Aschaffenburg.

Germans who get their news through TikTok are less likely to see China as a dictatorship, be less critical of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and be more sceptical about climate change and the utility of vaccines than consumers of other media.

By Ben Aris in Berlin Could Gazprom’s Nord Stream undersea gas pipelines, partially destroyed by saboteurs in September 2022, eventually be restarted? The idea of reconnecting Europe to the giant Russian Yamal gas fields has been introduced as a possible bargaining chip in the widely expected ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine.

ROGER W. FERGUSON, JR., is the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In the early 2000s, the complaints were similar...We missed that underneath the surface many things were changing,” says Jens Ulbrich, chief economist at the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank. Back then,

In addition to the American and Japanese paratroopers, airborne troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Singapore, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom participated in the exercise.