Do you recognize the two gentlemen in the center of the picture? That’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Egon Krenz, the last head of state and party leader of the GDR. The two ex-politicians ran into each other – knowingly or not – at the Chinese embassy on Tuesday. The envoy of the People’s Republic celebrated the 75th birthday of the People’s Republic of China there together with Putin confidant Schröder and former SED leader Krenz.