China's Quest for Foreign Technology

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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM GERMANY

Didi Kirsten Tatlow, Hinnerk Feldwisch-Drentrup and Ryan Fedasiuk

This chapter maps technology transfer from Germany, Europe’s most populous country and biggest economy with 83 million people, and a strong scientific and industrial tradition. It deepens the exploration begun in Chapter 7, similarly including many primary sources and original research. This is an understudied field.

Germany’s history of ties with the PRC is not uniform, as we touched on (see Chapter 7): East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) and the PRC established diplomatic relations soon after the founding of the two Communist states, days apart, in October 1949—the PRC on October 1, the GDR on October 7. For about 20 years, ...