Editorial_4.11.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to wrap up his entire China visit in just eleven hours this Friday. That is a whole new tempo. Angela Merkel always allowed herself two to three days. But that was also before Covid. It was a different time. That is precisely what the Chancellor now acknowledges in a written statement – that the situation in and toward China has changed. Because even before his departure, Scholz responded to the loud criticism of his visit in a guest article in the German newspaper FAZ. Finn Mayer-Kuckuk summarizes the chancellor’s key arguments and looks at how China’s media interpret his words.