German foreign minister warns against Chinese economic blackmail

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“This is why we are saying you also need China as a partner not only in regard to fighting climate change but as a partner in other sectors so that they could not say to Europe, ‘we’ve banned all the raw material’, and then the economy in Europe [goes] down but they know if they would do that, with our anti-coercion measures, we would say, ‘you also have some projects and if you want your projects in our market, this would also harm you’.” Linking together economic security and climate action, she outlined the need for Germany and Australia to...