”To what extent does communist power allow the capitalist sphere to breathe?”, launches Christine Ockrent, journalist and author of “The Emperor and the Red Billionaires: How Xi Holds China whom we met to discuss the economic aspects of his book.
”Germany is most dependent on China”
How to explain the appearance of billionaires in China in recent decades? And how would the current leader, Xi Jinping, in power since 2013, try to control them, when they come out of their “box”? Like the famous Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and Ant Group, who disappeared for a while and visibly went into exile in Japan, following criticizing the authorities, with relative caution, however.
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”The challenge for China is to revive its economy, and we are the largest market. But the challenge is to divide Europeans among themselves. Germany is the most dependent on China. Volkswagen generates a large part of its turnover there, for example”, she specifies.
“The current military maneuvers are part of the Chinese posturing”
In terms of the proximity of the telecommunications giant Huawei and power, for her, there is no doubt: “This proximity between Huawei and the Beijing regime is obvious“, she says.
Finally, in terms of the issue around Taiwan, Christine Ockrent believes that “the current military maneuvers are part of the Chinese posturing” but do not seem to worry him, for the moment. However, it also allows “weld Chinese nationalism, which is extremely present among young people” and she recalls that the United States is also strengthening its military presence in the region. It therefore calls, without too much surprise, for caution and nuance on the conclusions to be drawn from this visible increase in tensions, without taking them lightly.
