ANALYSIS
Supply chains will probably survive Germany’s new China strategy
Olaf Scholz and Xi Jinping. Image: © Bundesregierung. Bundesregierung
‘We need to release ourselves from the cheap Chinese supply chains’. ‘We could be moving to a new Cold War era’. ‘We need to be sensible and seize economic possibilities with China’. These contrasting viewpoints circulated since Germany’s new strategy on China leaked into German media. The strategy aims to reduce Germany’s dependency on China and sparked all kinds of reactions. Yet, the approach might be way more realistic than we think, and the supply chain could survive it or even thrive.
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Yes, but diversity and redundancy -safely, soundly and sustainably, within a big constructed domestic market, etc. – request an optimal infrastructure!
Regrettably, this basics, has not been provided for!
Commission and industry of railways, both, devastatingly have failed. Now TEN-T is “cementing”, at a standard, not allowing current loads – and even worse, short of resiliency, thus not robust… Low cost regional supplies chains request A New Old Railway – a high quality device!