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The Evergiven shipwreck blocked the Suez Canal in 2021. Worldwide supply chains broke. Just a harbinger of the huge new challenge of the "globalization" system?
In a newly developing world order between democracies and autocracies, German companies are forced to remain in business with countries such as China despite geopolitical risks, as they need the country as a sales market and supplier of raw materials.
To this end, the film portrays the work of VW China boss Ralf Brandstätter in Beijing, meticulously shows the West's dependence on the Taiwanese chip industry and follows a raw material hunter in Finland in search of cobalt deposits in Europe. All of this is set against the pressing question of how Germany should position itself vis-à-vis an increasingly totalitarian China: How much demarcation does Germany need? How much integration is still possible? The film shows that Germany has to make strategic decisions and weigh up its options in the new battle for the world: Between a morally motivated foreign policy that seeks to strengthen human rights and a foreign trade policy driven by interests that seeks to secure export-dependent jobs.
