German Economy Minister Robert Habeck set off on a trip to East Asia on Wednesday, with stopovers planned in South Korea and China. Ahead of his departure, Habeck said that relations between China and Germany had become “significantly more complex,” referring to trade disputes such as the European Union’s threat to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. The tariff issue “will certainly have a major impact on the trip, even though the [European] Commission is in the lead and is conducting the negotiations there,” Habeck said. He also anticipated Russia’s ongoing war in the Ukrain…