Germany and China

Andreas Fulda is Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, UK. His recent books include The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong (2020) and he is a frequent commentator on China for international media such as the BBC, Washington Post and Al Jazeera.

China matters to Germany, Europe and the world. Getting our policy towards a resurgent China right is important to Germany, Europe and other democracies. Andreas Fulda has raised serious questions about the German establishment’s engagement with China in this book. It should be required reading for policy makers and others interested in how we should engage China.

• PrefacePART 1 | Germany's Entanglement with Autocratic China: Causes, Culprits and ConsequencesChapter 1. Germany's Rude AwakeningChapter 2. Strategic Culture, the Steinmeier Doctrine and the Puzzle of German PowerChapter 3. Why the CCP Struggles Against its Oopponents, at Home and AbroadChapter 4. How Kohl, Schröder, Merkel and Scholz Normalised Autocratic ChinaChapter 5. Challenges to Germany's China Policy at the Dawn of the Merkel Era (2018-21)PART 2 | Policy Failures and Competing Policy Images: Germany's Protracted Paradigm ShiftChapter 6. The Demise of Germany's Solar Industry and Volkswagen's China ConundrumChapter 7. Germany's Lost Crown Jewel Kuka Roboter GmbH and Berlin's Huawei DilemmaChapter 8. Squandered German Leverage and Limits to Dialogue and Cooperation with ChinaChapter 9. Europe's Arms Embargo, Dual Use Exports and Germany's Indifference Towards TaiwanChapter 10. Censorship, Self-Censorship and Compromises in Academic Cooperation with ChinaChapter 11. Towards Greater Autocracy Competence in Germany?Bibliography Index