Published: August 15th, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
As head of the Asia Department of the European External Action Service, Gunnar Wiegand played a decisive role in steering the EU’s China policy.
Gunnar Wiegand sees Germany’s China strategy as an important implementation of the EU’s approach. In the second part of the interview conducted by Amelie Richter, he also looks at the still timid way of dealing with disinformation from China and the upcoming European elections. The first part of the interview can be found here.
Berlin published its China strategy just a few weeks ago. What impetus did this give Brussels?