Germany’s Altmaier Tries to Defuse Row Over U.S.-China Comments

(Bloomberg) -- German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier sought to clarify comments he made about the threat of U.S. and Chinese espionage, which the U.S. ambassador to Germany labeled an “insult” to American troops stationed in the country.Altmaier on Sunday defended the government’s decision not to ban China’s Huawei Technologies Co. from Germany’s fifth-generation mobile networks, saying it didn’t issue a “boycott” of American companies in the wake