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World Cup chants reveal true state of U.S.-German relations
By Ian Bremmer
July 17, 2014
As Germany basks in its World Cup victory, it’s easy to forget that one of the most telling geopolitical moments of the tournament came during the Germany-U.S. game. As American fans chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” the Germans countered with, “N-S-A! N-S-A! N-S-A!”
In the weeks since, relations have crumbled. After it learned that a German intelligence officer allegedly spied for the United States, Germany expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin — a rare move by a close American ally.
This isn’t a sudden reversal in relations. The fallout from surveillance scandals has been sharp and steady over the past year. In 2013, Germans grew wary about the extent of U.S. espionage after Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that the United States had been monitoringGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone since 2002. A German parliamentary committee asked Snowden to provide testimony for an inquiry on foreign intelligence activities. The request, which Snowden rejected, was sure to rankle the United States, but Germany pushed forward anyway: One country’s traitor was another’s key witness.
It’s no surprise that of all foreign countries, President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen the most in Brazil and Germany, two countries with leaders monitored by the National Security Agency.
But all the “friendly spying” scandals are just one piece of the puzzle. There are even deeper fissures causing a lot of the bad blood — and suggesting more of it to come.
A poorly defined, more risk-averse U.S. role in the world has Germany and other allies confused and frustrated about Washington’s commitments and preferences. They are questioning U.S. security guarantees, as well as Washington’s willingness to spend military, economic and diplomatic capital on foreign policy — called into question by deep gridlock in Washington, vacillation in Syria and aquestionable commitment to the “Asia pivot.”
The Obama administration’s weaker second-term foreign-policy team and its reactive, ineffectual decision-making have made matters worse. While many U.S. alliances have suffered from this foreign policy decline, America’s relationship with Germany has taken the biggest hit.
Germany is also unnerved by the potential for economic conflict between the United States and a German-led Europe. The global reach of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency gives the United States an extraterritorial privilege. America’s sanctions regime, which extends far beyond its borders, further empowers the United States. Sanctions can apply when there are no American citizens involved. They can target non-American branches of foreign institutions that simply have a U.S. presence, such as French bank BNP Paribas, which recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid an $8.9 billion fine. With more than $15 billion in fines now levied against more than 20 international banks — mostly European — Germany is alarmed by the United States’ tendency to use its economic clout as an extension of its foreign policy, one that the Germans see as increasingly fickle, opaque and misaligned from their own.
In terms of their values and preferences — including human rights, liberal free markets and rule of law — Germany and America see eye to eye. But in an environment in which American foreign policy is eroding even as America’s reach extends deeper into the global economy and communication network, Germany is worried about how the United States will wield its power. That’s especially true when only 38 percent of Germans still consider America “a trustworthy partner,” according to a survey that predates the most recent intelligence scandal. In anticipation of its growing resentment and resistance to American overreach, Germany is already ramping up relations with other countries to hedge its bets.
China-Germany is one of the most important relationships to watch in a world of declining American foreign policy. Last week, Merkel traveled to Beijing — her seventh trip to China as chancellor — inking lucrative economic deals, and finding common ground with the Chinese over U.S. surveillance overreach. During the visit, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang commiserated: “China and Germany, it can be said, are both victims of hacking attacks.”
Both countries prioritize commerce over philosophical differences. China is the top foreign investment destination for German companies; in a recent survey, 90 percent of German enterprises in China expressed interest in expanding their business there. Meanwhile, China’s investment in Germany grew by 28.4 percent from 2010 to 2013.
A visit from Secretary of State John Kerry may keep tensions with Germany from boiling over for now, but it won’t get Washington out of hot water. Washington needs to understand how deep the tensions go, and treat a reset with Germany as a top priority at the head-of-state level. It needs to make Berlin feel like a true partner. Unfortunately, that strategy is looking unlikely.
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an interesting piece last year on how the interest of Germany-led Europe & US started to detach.
By Ian Bremmer
July 17, 2014
As Germany basks in its World Cup victory, it’s easy to forget that one of the most telling geopolitical moments of the tournament came during the Germany-U.S. game. As American fans chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” the Germans countered with, “N-S-A! N-S-A! N-S-A!”
In the weeks since, relations have crumbled. After it learned that a German intelligence officer allegedly spied for the United States, Germany expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin — a rare move by a close American ally.
This isn’t a sudden reversal in relations. The fallout from surveillance scandals has been sharp and steady over the past year. In 2013, Germans grew wary about the extent of U.S. espionage after Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that the United States had been monitoringGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone since 2002. A German parliamentary committee asked Snowden to provide testimony for an inquiry on foreign intelligence activities. The request, which Snowden rejected, was sure to rankle the United States, but Germany pushed forward anyway: One country’s traitor was another’s key witness.
It’s no surprise that of all foreign countries, President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen the most in Brazil and Germany, two countries with leaders monitored by the National Security Agency.
But all the “friendly spying” scandals are just one piece of the puzzle. There are even deeper fissures causing a lot of the bad blood — and suggesting more of it to come.
A poorly defined, more risk-averse U.S. role in the world has Germany and other allies confused and frustrated about Washington’s commitments and preferences. They are questioning U.S. security guarantees, as well as Washington’s willingness to spend military, economic and diplomatic capital on foreign policy — called into question by deep gridlock in Washington, vacillation in Syria and aquestionable commitment to the “Asia pivot.”
The Obama administration’s weaker second-term foreign-policy team and its reactive, ineffectual decision-making have made matters worse. While many U.S. alliances have suffered from this foreign policy decline, America’s relationship with Germany has taken the biggest hit.
Germany is also unnerved by the potential for economic conflict between the United States and a German-led Europe. The global reach of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency gives the United States an extraterritorial privilege. America’s sanctions regime, which extends far beyond its borders, further empowers the United States. Sanctions can apply when there are no American citizens involved. They can target non-American branches of foreign institutions that simply have a U.S. presence, such as French bank BNP Paribas, which recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid an $8.9 billion fine. With more than $15 billion in fines now levied against more than 20 international banks — mostly European — Germany is alarmed by the United States’ tendency to use its economic clout as an extension of its foreign policy, one that the Germans see as increasingly fickle, opaque and misaligned from their own.
In terms of their values and preferences — including human rights, liberal free markets and rule of law — Germany and America see eye to eye. But in an environment in which American foreign policy is eroding even as America’s reach extends deeper into the global economy and communication network, Germany is worried about how the United States will wield its power. That’s especially true when only 38 percent of Germans still consider America “a trustworthy partner,” according to a survey that predates the most recent intelligence scandal. In anticipation of its growing resentment and resistance to American overreach, Germany is already ramping up relations with other countries to hedge its bets.
China-Germany is one of the most important relationships to watch in a world of declining American foreign policy. Last week, Merkel traveled to Beijing — her seventh trip to China as chancellor — inking lucrative economic deals, and finding common ground with the Chinese over U.S. surveillance overreach. During the visit, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang commiserated: “China and Germany, it can be said, are both victims of hacking attacks.”
Both countries prioritize commerce over philosophical differences. China is the top foreign investment destination for German companies; in a recent survey, 90 percent of German enterprises in China expressed interest in expanding their business there. Meanwhile, China’s investment in Germany grew by 28.4 percent from 2010 to 2013.
A visit from Secretary of State John Kerry may keep tensions with Germany from boiling over for now, but it won’t get Washington out of hot water. Washington needs to understand how deep the tensions go, and treat a reset with Germany as a top priority at the head-of-state level. It needs to make Berlin feel like a true partner. Unfortunately, that strategy is looking unlikely.
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an interesting piece last year on how the interest of Germany-led Europe & US started to detach.
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Europe needs to resuscitate, there is no another Marshall plan from... say NSAWorld Cup chants reveal true state of U.S.-German relations
By Ian Bremmer
July 17, 2014
As Germany basks in its World Cup victory, it’s easy to forget that one of the most telling geopolitical moments of the tournament came during the Germany-U.S. game. As American fans chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!” the Germans countered with, “N-S-A! N-S-A! N-S-A!”
In the weeks since, relations have crumbled. After it learned that a German intelligence officer allegedly spied for the United States, Germany expelled the CIA station chief in Berlin — a rare move by a close American ally.
This isn’t a sudden reversal in relations. The fallout from surveillance scandals has been sharp and steady over the past year. In 2013, Germans grew wary about the extent of U.S. espionage after Edward Snowden leaked documents showing that the United States had been monitoringGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone since 2002. A German parliamentary committee asked Snowden to provide testimony for an inquiry on foreign intelligence activities. The request, which Snowden rejected, was sure to rankle the United States, but Germany pushed forward anyway: One country’s traitor was another’s key witness.
It’s no surprise that of all foreign countries, President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen the most in Brazil and Germany, two countries with leaders monitored by the National Security Agency.
But all the “friendly spying” scandals are just one piece of the puzzle. There are even deeper fissures causing a lot of the bad blood — and suggesting more of it to come.
A poorly defined, more risk-averse U.S. role in the world has Germany and other allies confused and frustrated about Washington’s commitments and preferences. They are questioning U.S. security guarantees, as well as Washington’s willingness to spend military, economic and diplomatic capital on foreign policy — called into question by deep gridlock in Washington, vacillation in Syria and aquestionable commitment to the “Asia pivot.”
The Obama administration’s weaker second-term foreign-policy team and its reactive, ineffectual decision-making have made matters worse. While many U.S. alliances have suffered from this foreign policy decline, America’s relationship with Germany has taken the biggest hit.
Germany is also unnerved by the potential for economic conflict between the United States and a German-led Europe. The global reach of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency gives the United States an extraterritorial privilege. America’s sanctions regime, which extends far beyond its borders, further empowers the United States. Sanctions can apply when there are no American citizens involved. They can target non-American branches of foreign institutions that simply have a U.S. presence, such as French bank BNP Paribas, which recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges and paid an $8.9 billion fine. With more than $15 billion in fines now levied against more than 20 international banks — mostly European — Germany is alarmed by the United States’ tendency to use its economic clout as an extension of its foreign policy, one that the Germans see as increasingly fickle, opaque and misaligned from their own.
In terms of their values and preferences — including human rights, liberal free markets and rule of law — Germany and America see eye to eye. But in an environment in which American foreign policy is eroding even as America’s reach extends deeper into the global economy and communication network, Germany is worried about how the United States will wield its power. That’s especially true when only 38 percent of Germans still consider America “a trustworthy partner,” according to a survey that predates the most recent intelligence scandal. In anticipation of its growing resentment and resistance to American overreach, Germany is already ramping up relations with other countries to hedge its bets.
China-Germany is one of the most important relationships to watch in a world of declining American foreign policy. Last week, Merkel traveled to Beijing — her seventh trip to China as chancellor — inking lucrative economic deals, and finding common ground with the Chinese over U.S. surveillance overreach. During the visit, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang commiserated: “China and Germany, it can be said, are both victims of hacking attacks.”
Both countries prioritize commerce over philosophical differences. China is the top foreign investment destination for German companies; in a recent survey, 90 percent of German enterprises in China expressed interest in expanding their business there. Meanwhile, China’s investment in Germany grew by 28.4 percent from 2010 to 2013.
A visit from Secretary of State John Kerry may keep tensions with Germany from boiling over for now, but it won’t get Washington out of hot water. Washington needs to understand how deep the tensions go, and treat a reset with Germany as a top priority at the head-of-state level. It needs to make Berlin feel like a true partner. Unfortunately, that strategy is looking unlikely.
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an interesting piece last year on how the interest of Germany-led Europe & US started to detach.
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Germany is now bothered a lot by Greece. Hardworking Germans are paying for some lazy countries, just unfair.
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That's the bitterness of a united Europe&Euro.
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Commentary: China, Germany to jointly march towards next industrial revolution
English.news.cn 2015-03-21
HANOVER, Germany, March 20 (Xinhua) -- China has brought its in-depth cooperation with Germany into a new era as it decides to let its "Internet Plus" action plan join hand with the European nation's "Industry 4.0" strategy.
Both nations have expressed strong willingness to deepen cooperation between "Internet plus" and "Industry 4.0" in a bid to fuel innovation, foster new economic growth points and promote common development.
As new manufacturing concepts with web-based networking, the "Internet Plus" and "Industry 4.0" strategies share the same goal of revolutionizing the traditional manufacturing industry as well as all the other fields of human society.
Seeking to ride the tide of information technology, China has made a visionary move to strengthen coordination with Germany in promoting the "Internet Plus" and "Industry 4.0" initiatives.
As this year's CeBIT has shown, almost all economic sectors in today's society find themselves increasingly intertwined with information technology (IT), which is expected to bring earthshaking changes just as electricity did in the past.
By integrating its manufacturing with IT, China will be able to upgrade itself from a manufacturer of quantity to one of quality.
The foundation for its cooperation with Germany will also be solid as the two countries can complement each other's advantages.
Meanwhile, both China and Germany have the advantages of an early start, which will enable them to play a leading role in developing "Industry 4.0" and exert a significant impact globally.
In a keynote speech in the trade fair, Jeremy Rifkin, an expert on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, said both China's "Internet plus" and Germany's "Industry 4.0" have similar concepts. As initiators, China and Germany will become the double engines in the process of "Industry 4.0."
Moreover, with a huge market, China has its own advantages in developing the IT industry.
Experts interviewed by Xinhua said it is possible for China's manufacturing to take advantage of the digitalization to catch up with its international competitors.
"It's possible to skip some stages of development," said Christoph Meinel, head of Postdam-based Hasso Plattner Institute. "It's possible to even become a leader and come to the position to sell technologies also to other countries."
As a country with the biggest population in the world, China's biggest responsibility to the world's peace and development is to ensure its stability and growth.
By strengthening cooperation with Germany, China will find new growth engines for its economy and contribute to the growth and prosperity of the country and the world at large.
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English.news.cn 2015-03-21
HANOVER, Germany, March 20 (Xinhua) -- China has brought its in-depth cooperation with Germany into a new era as it decides to let its "Internet Plus" action plan join hand with the European nation's "Industry 4.0" strategy.
Both nations have expressed strong willingness to deepen cooperation between "Internet plus" and "Industry 4.0" in a bid to fuel innovation, foster new economic growth points and promote common development.
As new manufacturing concepts with web-based networking, the "Internet Plus" and "Industry 4.0" strategies share the same goal of revolutionizing the traditional manufacturing industry as well as all the other fields of human society.
Seeking to ride the tide of information technology, China has made a visionary move to strengthen coordination with Germany in promoting the "Internet Plus" and "Industry 4.0" initiatives.
As this year's CeBIT has shown, almost all economic sectors in today's society find themselves increasingly intertwined with information technology (IT), which is expected to bring earthshaking changes just as electricity did in the past.
By integrating its manufacturing with IT, China will be able to upgrade itself from a manufacturer of quantity to one of quality.
The foundation for its cooperation with Germany will also be solid as the two countries can complement each other's advantages.
Meanwhile, both China and Germany have the advantages of an early start, which will enable them to play a leading role in developing "Industry 4.0" and exert a significant impact globally.
In a keynote speech in the trade fair, Jeremy Rifkin, an expert on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, said both China's "Internet plus" and Germany's "Industry 4.0" have similar concepts. As initiators, China and Germany will become the double engines in the process of "Industry 4.0."
Moreover, with a huge market, China has its own advantages in developing the IT industry.
Experts interviewed by Xinhua said it is possible for China's manufacturing to take advantage of the digitalization to catch up with its international competitors.
"It's possible to skip some stages of development," said Christoph Meinel, head of Postdam-based Hasso Plattner Institute. "It's possible to even become a leader and come to the position to sell technologies also to other countries."
As a country with the biggest population in the world, China's biggest responsibility to the world's peace and development is to ensure its stability and growth.
By strengthening cooperation with Germany, China will find new growth engines for its economy and contribute to the growth and prosperity of the country and the world at large.
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Good to read this news.
A lot of members here only know China has a big low value-added industry, but don't know or don't want to know we at the same time have all kinds of industry from steel, EMU/DMU to 3-D printer. We assemble iPhones, but we also have Xiaomi, Huawei and a lot of IT giants. We produce most air-condtioners and simultaneously we have the biggest PC brand. Americans have Google, eBay, Facebook while we have Baidu, Alibaba, Wechat and QQ, unwilling to be a mere call centre or a outsourcing base.
This is what we have achieved, but not sufficient. We are not talkers and should be modest about our countless achievements. We have missed all the previous major technological revolutions, which directly led to the misery of last two centuries. But this one, it will simply change the whole nation's creativity and competitiveness, and reshape the status of world affairs.
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Chinese haters do know but they just trolling and being delusion to comfort themselves against the rise of China.
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China internet giants is a plus for future. Imagine if China's vast market had been taken hostage by the US internet media/services... A huge lose of taxpayers' money as well as a foreigner's total control over what you want to search and read.
Now China has its own national champions.
No company becomes an international player if it does not have a home base. China's companies now are ready to extend overseas, now that they have secured the home base.
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China and Germany share ideas in CeBIT
Reporter: Guy Henderson 丨 CCTV.com
03-19-2015 17:03 BJT
The world’s largest Information and Communications Technology Fair, CeBIT, is taking place in the German city of Hannover.
It brings together cutting edge technology from around the world. As an official partner this year, China has a strong representation, and the two countries have ideas to share up to a point.
"The basic idea of Industry 4.0 is really, tightly integrating IT – the computers – with the production, the hardware part of industry. Of course, there have been ways of doing this but tightly integrating them. That hasn’t happened yet," said Prof. Phiilippe Slusalek, German Research Center For Artificial Intelligence.
If a worker calls in sick in the factories of today, the risk is you miss your production targets. But in the factories of tomorrow, a powerful software will simply re-jig the staff that are present – according to their roles, according to their competence in that role – and keep things on track.
What is also remarkable about this demonstration is that the end product is a component of the factory itself: so in theory, at some point in the future, you could have factories that build themselves.
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Even they meet obstacles, China's huge consuming market is a safe port for them, providing the most ideal domestic market for innovation. Then, setting this market as their base, go abroad. We have the best strategic depth.
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