Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer pushed ahead with plans for a European protection force in Ukraine at a summit of the "Coalition of the Willing." There was a clear rejection in Paris of Russian demands to ease sanctions.
By Stephan Israel
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has criticized Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) over a Memorandum of Understanding on data exchange concluded with China. Wissing rejected the Chancellor's criticism.
By Felix Lee
The tariffs are here, but the conflicts are far from over. Berlin intends to keep intervening in Brussels to avoid provoking Beijing too much. And Beijing will almost certainly retaliate – though probably not against Germany first.
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Penpa Tsering, the chairman of the Tibetan government-in-exile, recently met with France's President Emmanuel Macron. In an interview, Tsering explains why it's a mistake to be intimidated by Beijing's threats.
By Marcel Grzanna
Chancellor Olaf Scholz's China trip has shown that despite Germany's "strategy on China," its foreign policy remains uncritical and naive. Systemic rivalry with the autocratic regime is downplayed for tactical reasons and there are hardly any debates.
By Marcel Grzanna
Norbert Roettgen gives Olaf Scholz's China trip a crushing verdict. In an interview with Michael Radunski, the CDU foreign policy expert accuses the Chancellor of being a supplicant.
By Michael Radunski
The former head of the Munich Security Conference, Ambassador Ischinger, had high expectations of the Scholz visit following talks with China's foreign minister. Given the meager results, he considers disillusionment understandable.
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The German Chancellor's visit to Beijing was not necessarily conducive to a pan-European approach, says Merics analyst Abigaël Vasselier. The government's China strategy fell short in practice.
By Amelie Richter
Human rights organizations such as the Tibet Initiative and Human Rights Watch Germany have expressed disappointment that the German Chancellor barely raised human rights issues during his visit to China.
By Marcel Grzanna
Jens Spahn travels to China shortly after Olaf Scholz and uses the opportunity to criticize the Chancellor and the German government. Meanwhile, Juergen Hardt, foreign policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group, praises the Chancellor.
By Redaktion Table
