Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz just landed in Beijing — and it tells us everything about where Europe is heading. Xi Jinping has now received the leaders of France, Britain, AND Germany. What does that mean for the Western alliance? For NATO? For Ukraine? And most importantly — for Germany’s struggling industrial economy?
Merz brought the BMW chairman to China. He toured Mercedes-Benz factories — in China. He signed deals with CATL, China’s leading EV battery giant. Germany, the industrial heart of Europe, is quietly pivoting East — and Western media is barely covering it.
In this video, I break down:
🔹 Why Merz visited China and what Xi Jinping said
🔹 Germany’s deepening trade dependence on China
🔹 How the US-Germany relationship is fracturing under Trump’s America First agenda
🔹 The energy crisis killing German industrial competitiveness (thanks to cutting off Russian oil)
🔹 Whether Germany can afford to keep backing Ukraine at the cost of its own economy
🔹 China’s rise as an industrial and technological superpower — and what that means for Europe This is the kind of geopolitical and economic analysis you won’t get from mainstream Western media. No spin. Just the full picture.
📌 Also check out my video on China’s robots (17th February) — Merz literally toured a Unitree robotics factory. The future is wild.
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