German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that he wants to “further develop” economic cooperation with China, even though the two countries have “different views.”
“We also want to address how we can develop cooperation on other issues, including climate change, food security and the sovereign debt crisis in developing countries,” Scholz said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Beijing “strengthens practical cooperation” between China and Germany, according to comments broadcast on state television CCTV.
The first visit to China by a European leader and a country from the G7 group (seven largest economies in the world), since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, occurs in a context of growing Western mistrust of the Asian country.
Although the Scholz government has already signaled a move away from the purely commercial approach to the Asian country, cultivated by predecessor Angela Merkel, a business delegation accompanies the German chancellor, including the CEOs of Volkswagen, BioNtech or Siemens.
Source: TSF
