Maybe simping for every dictatorship under the sun as long as it's sufficiently anti-American is not just a Scholz problem or an SPD problem: it's a Germany problem.
The China trap: survey shows surprising assessment of German company bosses
39% consider China's economic policies to be good or very good, another 37% consider them satisfactory – numbers much higher than for the US. You know, the one-party dictatorship with a heavily state-directed economy where businessmen who fall foul of the government regurarly get disappeared.
Well, may be you noted that the survey was taken in
May 2019!! (started wondering when it talked about a "possible Brexit"..) - So - just may be - actual numbers could be quite different.... like that COVID-restrictions would have reduced the easyness to do business in China... - or other things...