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Europe investments: China increasingly focusing on batteries

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By Redaktion

Published: May 9th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Instead of takeovers, Chinese companies are now focusing on greenfield investments. Here they have their eyes on one sector in particular: Battery production for electric vehicles. This has far-reaching consequences for Europe.

China’s investments in Europe are decreasing. In 2022, the volume was down 22 percent year-on-year, according to a recent study by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics) and the Rhodium Group. Compared to 2016, it even declined by 83 percent.

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