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Olaf Scholz Is on a Telltale China Trip
Europe is flexing its muscles with China—but may soon learn if Germany is really on board.
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Noah Barkin is a Senior Advisor with Rhodium Group's China practice, focusing on Europe-China relations and transatlantic China policy.
ChinaNoah is a part of the Rhodium Group team advising government and corporate clients. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and creator of the popular “Watching China in Europe” newsletter.
Previously he worked as a bureau chief, regional editor and roving Europe correspondent for Reuters, based in Berlin, Paris, London and New York. He has also written for publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Foreign Policy and Politico and is quoted regularly in leading international media. Noah has been a visiting fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin and the American German Institute in Washington. He has testified in the U.S. Senate and the European Parliament, and is a regular speaker and moderator on European policy issues. Noah is also the author of a book on the euro. A native Californian, he has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and French from U.C. Berkeley and a Master’s degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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Europe is flexing its muscles with China—but may soon learn if Germany is really on board.
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The shifting economic relationship between Germany and China could have outsize impact on the direction of European policymaking toward Beijing.
Testimony
Noah outlined changes in European capitals' China policies over the past year and strategies for US leadership to manage differing EU state views
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European direct investment in China is increasingly dominated by a handful of large companies, many of them German.