Foreign companies don’t buy into “decoupling” and are competing to “link” to China. Germany's total direct investment in China reached a record high of 11.9 billion euros in 2023.
51% of the companies surveyed regard China as the "most important market" and "one of the three important markets" in 2024 and beyond. In the context of intensified competition between great powers, China needs to make more efforts to "link" with China.