{"id":26592,"date":"2016-06-07T23:02:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T06:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-embarks-on-tech-shopping-spree-for-german-robots-and-pianos"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:57:05","slug":"china-embarks-on-tech-shopping-spree-for-german-robots-and-pianos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-embarks-on-tech-shopping-spree-for-german-robots-and-pianos","title":{"rendered":"China embarks on tech shopping spree for German robots and pianos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-embarks-on-tech-shopping-spree-for-german-robots-and-pianos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has been on a shopping tour of Germany, splurging on a string of key industrial companies in the past few weeks as Beijing moves to acquire the country\u2019s fabled technological know-how and turn its own products into global brands.<\/p>\n<p>But resistance to the offensive is growing following a 5 billion euro ($7.7 billion) bid last month by Chinese home appliance group Midea for leading German industrial robot maker Kuka.<\/p>\n<p>The size of the play set alarm bells ringing across the business and political establishment of Europe\u2019s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016-06-08\/chinas-technology-shopping-spree-for-german-robots-and-pianos\/7492168\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2016&#45;06&#45;08\/chinas-technol...os\/7492168<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been on a shopping tour of Germany, splurging on a string of key industrial companies in the past few weeks as Beijing moves to acquire the country\u2019s fabled technological know-how and turn its own products into global brands. But resistance to the offensive is growing following a 5 billion euro ($7.7 billion) bid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67287,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26592\/revisions\/67287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}