{"id":146864,"date":"2026-02-26T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146864"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:25:08","slug":"germanys-merz-leaves-china-with-stronger-ties-as-trump-trade-battle-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146864","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Merz leaves China with stronger ties as Trump trade battle looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGerman Chancellor Friedrich Merz has concluded his first visit to China, hailing the \u201cgood cooperation\u201d with Beijing as Berlin seeks to rebalance ties with its biggest trading partner amid the unpredictability of the Trump administration.<br \/>\nMerz characterised the visit as \u201cworthwhile\u201d, noting that China would buy up to 120 additional aircraft from Airbus SE. The company operates two assembly lines in the northern port city of Tianjin that mainly produce A320 jets for Chinese carriers.<br \/>\nIn his&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3344777\/merz-leaves-china-bargaining-chips-looming-trump-trade-battle?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 has concluded his first visit to China, hailing the \u201cgood cooperation\u201d with Beijing as Berlin seeks to rebalance ties with&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\/146864"}],"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=146864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}