On Wednesday, March 23, German President Joachim Gauck addressed an audience of university students in Shanghai. Among many views not typically aired in public in China, Gauck, a former Luterhan minister and anti-communist organizer, told the crowd at Tongji University that 1989 the year the East German communist state collapsed proved to him that “human rights are not
German investors and business owners with a stake in China have grown increasingly concerned amid diplomatic strife and zero-Covid disruptions, and Beijing hopes they can ‘help Europe view China correctly’.
In the interplay between the new chancellor and his cabinet, the greatest determinant of Germany’s future China policy will be a third actor – Xi Jinping.