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04/18/2008: "German Business Warns of Pushing China too Far"

As calls increase for a boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games ceremonies and sanctions against China, German business leaders are starting to worry about the possible effect on their business dealings in China.

Protests in many European cities against China's crackdown in Tibet a month ago and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence that she would be prepared to meet with the Dalai Lama again (more...) have given German industry leaders the jitters; they worry that Beijing may start having second thoughts about doing business with German companies.

[ They are right to expect that. Merkel is more interested in pleasing the neo cons of the US who resent the power of China, than in protecting the German economy. Human rights has nothing to do with it. ]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,548248,00.html