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The price of Europe's dependency on China – with Janka Oertel

China's exports are hitting Germany's core industry with unprecedented severity and speed. As jobs are massively at risk, Europe is desperately looking for an emergency political brake. Rixa Fürsen talks to Janka Oertel about the existential threat to the automotive and mechanical engineering industries. Oertel is a political scientist and China expert at the think tank "European Council on Foreign Relations".

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