Published: April 16th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Following his trip to China and a meeting with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the former head of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, sees a soft distance of China to Russia, which could play a role in the meeting between China’s President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz this Tuesday. „My impression is that China is willing to talk to the German colleagues not only about repeating the statement regarding the inadmissibility of Russian use of nuclear weapons, but could even sharpen this statement,“ Ischinger told Table.Briefings.