[schnuri]

I think it’s important to point out that German car manufacturers and the German government opposed import tariffs on Chinese cars.

[schnitzelstoat]

Fair enough, but in the end we still got the tariffs.

[vasco]

To think things get done in the EU without Germany's approval is a bit past naivety. Germany publicly voted no to try and delay a Chinese reprisal too fast in counter tariffs, but that's just for optics, otherwise they wouldn't have been approved.

It's incredible how one can see what happens in practice but believe what people say rather than what people do.

[schnuri]

That’s just a conspiracy theory. You overestimate Germanys power in the EU by far, it is not 2009 anymore.

Also, German car manufacturers will not profit from these tariffs.