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Reasons for the Trade War

The large Chi­nese trade sur­plus­es are of­ten cit­ed as the main rea­son for the spe­cial tar­iffs im­posed by the USA, and the on­go­ing trade dis­pute. In an in­ter­view with Tagess­chau, Ralph Ossa points to a num­ber of oth­er rea­sons: There are valid con­cerns re­gard­ing the pro­tec­tion of in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and Chi­na has a very high num­ber of state en­ter­pris­es. The grant­i­ng of loans and sub­si­dies to state-owned en­ter­pris­es in Chi­na is opaque. Con­se­quent­ly, mar­ket-ori­ent­ed coun­tries fear that glob­al com­pet­i­tive con­di­tions are be­ing dis­tort­ed and that their busi­ness­es will not be able to com­pete with Chi­nese com­pa­nies.

Tagess­chau from 10.05.2019 (in Ger­man) Re­port starts at 11:58
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