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Germany Likely Won't Boycott Beijing Games: Global Times

CHINA PRESS
MNI (Singapore)

Germany may not follow Lithuania and the telephone conversation between the two leaders on Tuesday will “help the German government take a cautious, objective and calm stance on the issue of the Winter Olympic Games,” the Global Times reported citing Sun Keqin, a research fellow at the government-run China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations. President Xi Jinping spoke with Germany’s new Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday, in which the two leaders pledged to inherit and advance China-Germany friendship and cooperation. Germany would like to take the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties next year as an opportunity to hold talks and it hopes the EU-China Investment Agreement will be implemented at an early date, Scholz was cited as saying.

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