Gretchen question about marijuana

Our China Perspective is written by authors from the People’s Republic. Today’s article is about the staged exchange between Chancellor Scholz and Beijing students: Nothing was left to chance here.

Both German and Chinese audiences were somewhat amused by a student’s question to Chancellor Olaf Scholz about cannabis legalization in Germany when he visited Tongji University in Shanghai on April 15. This anecdote, which added a rare splash of color to a boring politician’s fruitless trip, was widely reported in the German media and also briefly became a hot topic on Chinese social media.

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