Published: May 5th, 2024,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025

During her tour of the Pacific region, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock hopes to strengthen the cohesion of Western democracies in times of war in Ukraine and tensions over Taiwan. She aims to clearly identify China and Russia as threats to the rules-based international order and to demonstratively strengthen the nations of the Indo-Pacific against their big neighbor, China.