Published: April 17th, 2024,
Last updated: April 17th, 2024
This trip to China led back to the future. Olaf Scholz’s trip with a large business delegation could have been from the era of every German chancellor since the late 1990s, when German business with China was booming, without any self-doubt or suspicions. And we have seen the fishing for concessions regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine during the Chancellor’s trip in 2022. However, China’s support for Russia has not changed substantially since then.