It must have caused some rolling of eyes in European board rooms when Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz last week told companies it was up to them to manage de-risking from China. Multinationals have been deafened for years by a cacophony of conflicting exhortations from EU governments, the European Commission, Joe Biden’s White House and Xi Jinping’s administration — increasingly backed by open-ended subsidies — advising them where to invest.
当德国总理奥拉夫•朔尔茨(Olaf Scholz)上周对企业表示,要靠企业自己做好对华“去风险”时,欧洲企业的董事会里一定有不少人翻白眼。多年来,欧盟各国政府、欧盟委员会(European Commission)、乔•拜登(Joe Biden)领导的白宫以及manbetx3.0 政府一直对跨国企业发出相互冲突的呼吁,告诉企业应该在哪里投资,并且日益诉诸不设上限的补贴来达成目的,所形成的嘈杂声震耳欲聋。