Lack of cooperation is biggest risk, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said to German CEOs

 

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang told Germany’s top CEOs that a lack of cooperation was the biggest risk and called for stronger ties even as Europe seeks to reduce its dependence on the country.

Li met with the heads of corporate titans like Mercedes-Benz, SAP and Siemens Energy on Monday in Berlin ahead of Chinese-German government consultations on Tuesday at the start of his first official trip overseas.

“We should not artificially exaggerate ‘dependence’, or even simply equate interdependence with insecurity,” he told Germany’s top corporate brass according to the official Xinhua news agency.

“Lack of cooperation is the biggest risk, and lack of development is the biggest insecurity.”