BERLIN: China's Premier Li Qiang will meet German leaders during a trip to Berlin on Monday (Jun 19), at a time when Beijing's policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West. Li - who is making his first trip abroad since being appointed premier in Ma
BERLIN: China's Premier Li Qiang will meet German leaders during a trip to Berlin on Monday , at a time when Beijing's policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West.
At the same time, it underlined the necessity of getting Beijing's cooperation on global issues like fighting climate change. Scholz himself had said the message sent by the document is that"China's integration into world trade and world economic relations should not be impaired.Beijing has bristled at being described as a"partner, competitor and systemic rival" in the text.
That made China a key market for Germany's exporters while also allowing Berlin to take in prominent human rights activists like Liu Xia, apparently without suffering any retaliatory consequences. Diversifying has now become a buzzword for Germany's elites, with Berlin intensively wooing more partners beyond the world's biggest powers.But inconveniently for China, the shift is happening when the Asian giant is experiencing an economic slowdown.
Li is"in charge of fixing the economy, which is in trouble", Ian Johnson, China expert at the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations, told AFP.
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