The Chancellor is traveling to Beijing, and his host, President Xi, is taking an unusually long time. But that doesn’t mean that everything is fine in the relationship between the two countries – on the contrary.
Olaf Scholz will spend three, four, maybe even five hours with Xi Jinping next Tuesday. China’s head of state and party leader is taking an unusually long time for the guest from Germany. And yet: Even if it were three, four or five days, that would not be enough to discuss all the pressing issues in detail. Because the economic policy agenda that Scholz brings with him is so comprehensive that it goes beyond any framework.