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Germany and other EU nation are considering de-risking rather than decoupling. Here will be the damage of decoupling for Germany

Large German Firms are Particularly Involved and Political Economy Risks Exist
Around 5,000 German companies conduct business in China. According to the German Economic Institute, 2.7 percent of Germany’s total economic value-added and 2.4 percent of total employment depend on exports to China. China is Germany’s largest trading partner for trade in goods (9.5 percent of Germany’s trade in goods), but EU neighboring countries are much more important (e.g., the four Visegrád countries in 2021 accounted for almost 40 percent more in trade).

https://dgap.org/en/research/publication...de-risking