About 111 years ago, the German emperor Wilhelm II. farewelled the East-Asian Expedition Corps from Bremen's harbor to China in order to beat down China's resistance to European imperialism. His orders were unequivocal: bring civilization to China, show no mercy to reactionaries, and teach China a memorable lesson so that no Chinaman will ever dare to look askant at one of us. Things of course have changed since then.
Airplanes have been invented. Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research and her delegation of top officials once again landed in Shanghai. China's Pearl River Delta's megalopolis is more populous than Germany's capital Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and the next ten biggest German cities combined. It's awesome.
The Federal Minister certainly prefers Beijing, China's capital and the center of politics and educational policy. Yet, most of the schaffenden Germans, those who actually produce material value since bilateral trade agreements began in 1979, have traditionally settled in Shanghai and farther down in the industrial south, Shenzhen and Guangdong, China's manufacturing bases. Over 5300 German companies are active in China, and 8000 German administrators are stationed in Shanghai alone.
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