Published: July 11th, 2022,
Last updated: July 14th, 2022
Two leading Green Party parliamentarians are supporting the United States in its demand for Germany to stop selling military-grade marine machinery to China. This was reported by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Juergen Trittin, currently Foreign Policy Spokesman for the parliamentary group in the Bundestag, and high-profile MEP Reinhard Buetikofer believe the practice of exporting ship engines is outdated. „Such support for China’s rapid rearmament is contrary to German interests,“ Buetikofer told the newspaper.