{"id":131060,"date":"2025-06-13T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131060"},"modified":"2025-06-13T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:00:13","slug":"cheerleaders-to-critics-german-machinery-makers-call-for-eu-action-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131060","title":{"rendered":"Cheerleaders to critics: German machinery makers call for EU action on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGermany\u2019s iconic machine makers used to be among the loudest cheerleaders for ever-closer economic ties between China and Europe.<br \/>\nNow, as exports dwindle and facing \u201cincreasingly strong [Chinese] competitors\u201d beefed up by \u201cunfair state subsidies\u201d, the industry is demanding that Brussels put in place trade barriers to protect it.<br \/>\nA new position paper published on Thursday by the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA), representing medium-sized manufacturers that help constitute&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3314268\/cheerleaders-critics-german-machinery-makers-call-eu-action-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGermany\u2019s iconic machine makers used to be among the loudest cheerleaders for ever-closer economic ties between China and Europe. Now, as exports dwindle and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}