Author: Hans von der Burchard, Koen Verhelst

BERLIN — Germany will oppose EU duties on Chinese electric vehicles in a bloc-wide vote on Friday after Chancellor Olaf Scholz managed to strong-arm his Green coalition partners into doing his bidding, four German officials told POLITICO. Berlin has been the most vocal opponent of the duties, which range up to 35.3 percent, but was widely expected to abstain in the vote in Brussels because of disagreement within its three-party governing coalition. Scholz’s more Beijing-friendly Social Democrats disagreed with the forceful approach toward the Chinese leadership preferred by the Green Party. The smallest party in the coalition, the liberal FDP,…