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The German Chancellor is going to Beijing from this Thursday. With a risk: that of further increasing the strategic dependence of his country with China.
From our correspondent in Berlin, Pascale Hugues
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Lhe first official visit to China that the German Chancellor begins this Thursday, escorted by a large delegation of German bosses, falls badly. While the Chinese CP Congress has just re-elected President Xi Jinping by increasing his powers and the regime in Beijing continues to harden, this visit looks like a bond. It also raises a series of questions that are worrying to say the least: has the dangerous dependence on Russian gas that the war in Ukraine so brutally revealed not served as a lesson to Olaf Scholz? Is he repeating the mistakes of the past by further increasing Germany’s strategic dependence on China?
Warnings are raining down everywhere: the German intelligence services are…
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