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Germany's Strategic Autonomy

The German economy is going to be dependent on selling goods to China. So how much fundamentally have they shifted there? I think that what we can see in regard to Russia on the corporate side, so German companies are still there and not a great deal has changed. On the other hand, then in good part because Russia effectively declared an energy war on Germany by shutting down the sale of gas to Germany. It's now got to find gas supplies from other parts of the world and import it by sea and not through these pipelines. There's a very strange disjuncture between the ways in which Germany has changed because it's absolutely had no choice. And the ways inWhich Germany has change because

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