The frontrunner for the conservative CDU/CSU party bloc in the German elections, Friedrich Merz, believes that China is a less promising market for German companies than the American continent. „I have become more convinced in recent weeks and months that the American market, including the South American market, is definitely a more secure basis for us (…) than China alone, for example,“ said the CDU leader at an event organized by the German Association of the Automotive Industry. He said China was a country that did not adhere to the rule of law and that companies were taking „great entrepreneurial risks.“