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(MNI) London - Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will travel to Beijing for talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday 2 Dec. The Foreign Ministry has said that Baerbock's trip is a 'working visit' where she will hold a 'strategic dialogue' with Wang, but has not provided details of any other meetings she may hold. 

  • Politico reports, "The potential for conflict is great: Baerbock is a sharp critic of Beijing's increasingly open support for Vladimir Putin's war of aggression. The fact that Chinese companies are selling drones to Russia must have "consequences", she recently said. In Beijing, she is also likely to push for a fair peace in Ukraine - in which Russia withdraws its troops. Baerbock also supports the EU tariffs on unfairly subsidized electric cars from China (unlike Scholz or Friedrich Merz). Negotiations between Brussels and Beijing are still slow."
  • The German federal election, likely to take place 23 Feb, looms over the status of Sino-German relations. The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is seen as the favourite to emerge as the largest party. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is viewed as more of a China hawk than figures from the outgoing 'traffic light' coalition. Following the sale of the stake in a Hamburg port terminal to China's Cosco in 2022, Merz said that Germany needed "a reassessment of its relationship with China". 
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(MNI) London - Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will travel to Beijing for talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday 2 Dec. The Foreign Ministry has said that Baerbock's trip is a 'working visit' where she will hold a 'strategic dialogue' with Wang, but has not provided details of any other meetings she may hold. 

  • Politico reports, "The potential for conflict is great: Baerbock is a sharp critic of Beijing's increasingly open support for Vladimir Putin's war of aggression. The fact that Chinese companies are selling drones to Russia must have "consequences", she recently said. In Beijing, she is also likely to push for a fair peace in Ukraine - in which Russia withdraws its troops. Baerbock also supports the EU tariffs on unfairly subsidized electric cars from China (unlike Scholz or Friedrich Merz). Negotiations between Brussels and Beijing are still slow."
  • The German federal election, likely to take place 23 Feb, looms over the status of Sino-German relations. The conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is seen as the favourite to emerge as the largest party. CDU leader Friedrich Merz is viewed as more of a China hawk than figures from the outgoing 'traffic light' coalition. Following the sale of the stake in a Hamburg port terminal to China's Cosco in 2022, Merz said that Germany needed "a reassessment of its relationship with China".