There is an ongoing debate whether our woman chancelor, Angela Merkel, should better have not received the Tibetian intellectual and spiritual leader who is a thorn in China’s flesh. The Chinese show themselves more than exasperated by that asserted betrayal of confidence.

In my humble opinion, there are two remarkable aspects of the publix debate:

1. China is lightyears away from freedom and democracy.
2. The fear that Germany could lose a lot of money because purchase orders break away reveals an dependence from external resources in a broader sense. Wouldn’t a Germany that is strong because of its own be much stronger than one whose strength is built on external resources? Mere orientation on money rewards may lead to minor quality and possibly not to sustainable creation of value – we’ve seen that with dotProject.

Hopefully, ethical principles will soon find their way back into consideration concerning economic decisisions.