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Germany's China-friendly approach is continuing under Olaf Scholz

4 January 2022

8:11 PM

4 January 2022

8:11 PM

As Angela Merkel prepares to write her autobiography, ‘explaining her key decisions in her own words’, her successor has his hands full dealing with the decisions she did not make. Germany’s new chancellor Olaf Scholz has taken captaincy of a ship on a course to nowhere in particular. He is beginning to find out just how difficult it is to steer his predecessor’s middle course between China and the West.

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