Probably the single biggest geopolitical issue for the EU right now, and especially for Germany, is future relations with China. Last week, a German business magazine reported that a senior official of Angela Merkel’s chancellery had visited China to explore an anti-spying agreement. Such agreements are usually not worth the paper they are written on. The context of this visit was the bid by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, for the fifth generation mobile licences in Germany (on which a decision is due at some point this month). A no-spying agreement would allow Germany to pretend that China does not constitute a security threat after all.
对现在的欧盟(EU)，尤其是对德国来说，最重要的地缘政治问题很可能是未来对华关系。上周，一份德国商业杂志报道了安格拉•默克尔(Angela Merkel)政府的一名高级官员访华，以探讨签署一份无间谍协议的可能性。这类协议通常毫无价值。此次访华的背景是manbetx3.0 电信设备制造商华为(Huawei)希望参与德国5G网络建设（预计相关决定将在3月作出）。无间谍协议将使德国能够假装manbetx3.0 不构成安全威胁。