The member states of the European Union need to join forces to withstand competition from South Korea and China, German Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said in Hangzhou on Sunday. Speaking at the end of a four-day visit to East Asia, Habeck said the concept “competition, and in the toughest sense” had caught up with him repeatedly during the trip, both in South Korea and in China. “I believe we have to confront this competition. Germany also uses this word ‘competition’ in other words negligence, laziness, lethargy, sluggishness are not an alternative,” Habeck said. But he…