{"id":144794,"date":"2026-01-23T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144794"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:21:58","slug":"germanys-dramatic-china-car-trade-slump-tests-merzs-tough-talk-at-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144794","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s dramatic China car trade slump tests Merz\u2019s tough talk at Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAfter German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to make Europe \u201cthe antithesis to state-sponsored unfair trade practices\u201d, the massive pressure the country\u2019s automotive industry faced from China was laid bare in new figures.<br \/>\nOver the course of 2025, German car and car part shipments to China saw dramatic slumps, while Chinese shipments to Germany across many of the same sectors soared.<br \/>\nGermany has been a reluctant participant in many of the EU\u2019s most forceful trade gambits against China, as it&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3341047\/germanys-dramatic-china-car-trade-slump-tests-merzs-tough-talk-davos?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 PostAfter German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to make Europe \u201cthe antithesis to state-sponsored unfair trade practices\u201d, the massive pressure the country\u2019s automotive industry faced&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\/144794"}],"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=144794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}