Doris Fischer: How Germany’s chanc • Table.Briefings

Business sinologist and university professor Doris Fischer.

Germany’s first Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, took office in 1949, the same year the People’s Republic of China was founded. Germany’s chancellors have shaped relations with China in very different ways.

Konrad Adenauer was 38 years old when the German colony of Qingdao was returned to China. During his lifetime, the Chinese Empire became the People’s Republic. When Adenauer became the first German Chancellor in 1949, did relations with China play a role for Germany?

Doris Fischer: How Germany’s chancellors shaped relations

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