{"id":146839,"date":"2026-02-26T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146839"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:07:31","slug":"china-shock-hits-germany-as-merz-joins-beijing-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146839","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China shock\u2019 hits Germany as Merz joins Beijing pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz voiced concerns about Chinese industrial overcapacity after meeting President Xi Jinping, as he seeks to rein in a trade deficit that has grown fourfold since 2020.<br \/>\n\u201cThis dynamic is not healthy,\u201d Merz told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday, according to Reuters. He also highlighted \u201crisks\u201d from the close connections between the two countries, including problems suffered by German manufacturers last year when China tightened export controls on basic computer chips&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3344730\/china-shock-hits-germany-merz-joins-beijing-pilgrimage?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 PostGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz voiced concerns about Chinese industrial overcapacity after meeting President Xi Jinping, as he seeks to rein in a trade deficit&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\/146839"}],"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=146839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}