Taiwan’s international ministry mentioned on Tuesday it “welcomes and affirms Germany, together with the US, Canada and the Netherlands, for taking actions to show the authorized standing of the Taiwan Strait as worldwide waters, whereas defending freedom of navigation and sustaining regional peace on the similar time”.
A enterprise group in Europe’s largest financial system, the Federation of German Industries, welcomed the transfer.
“German business is encouraging the federal authorities to keep up the already eroding rules-based worldwide order so far as attainable,” govt board member Wolfgang Niedermark informed the Handelsblatt Monetary Each day.
He mentioned guidelines are solely legitimate if they’re enforced constantly, and that “Germany too should take duty for this”.