According to CCTV news client, German Chancellor Scholz said on the 15th that the German market welcomes Chinese cars.

Scholz emphasized that the European market must engage in open and fair competition with Chinese cars. He also warned that Europe would not tolerate dumping, overcapacity and intellectual property infringement. Scholz also said that when Japanese and South Korean cars entered the European market, people were worried that Japanese and South Korean cars would conquer the European market, but "this did not happen."

The German Automobile Industry Association issued a document on the 13th that publicly opposed the EU's imposition of additional tariffs on imported electric vehicles from China, saying that this could trigger a trade war, threaten German employment, and endanger the EU's goal of promoting electric vehicles and transforming to digital.

Scholz visits Shanghai

According to Xinhua Agency, German Chancellor Scholz communicated with students at the Jiading Campus of Tongji University in Shanghai on the 15th and visited the Asia-Pacific Innovation Center of a German-funded enterprise Covestro in Pudong New District.

Scholz and his party arrived in Shanghai from Chongqing on the morning of the 15th.