Published: April 28th, 2021,
Last updated: June 27th, 2022
German-Chinese government consultations start today. Critics complain that they have often been a PR success for Beijing in the past. Foreign policy experts from the coalition and the opposition are calling on the German government to address critical questions about human rights, sanctions, and the CAI investment agreement, as Finn Mayer-Kuckuk analyses. It would be a step forward. After all, just two weeks ago Angela Merkel spoke to Xi Jinping on the phone and hardly addressed any critical issues.