With Westlessness in West and East, China will run away from the West. Unfortunately, international finance capitalism is also participating in the erosion of the West's success factors.

China could benefit from the current debt downplaying in the US and Europe. Debt relief in the Eurozone is geopolitically necessary, - not only for this reason.

In addition to the "folly of those in power", there is also a "folly of protest voters" who, with their protest vote, strengthen the very thing they are protesting against.

The Federal Constitutional Court sets limits to the political strategy of postponing problems into the future and imposing the costs of political measures on other generations.

The EU and US sanctions will not help the Uyghurs in the camps in Xinjiang. Sanctions feign a capacity for action on the part of the West that the West must first regain.

The new US administration wants to take a differentiated approach to China. There is no talk of complete disengagement at the moment. But what might a differentiated approach to China look like?