Posted on 11/06/2022 5:55:57 AM PST by DFG
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz became the first Western leader to travel to Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping since the Chinese coronavirus crisis on Friday.
Chancellor Scholz, of the leftist Social Democratic Party (SPD), made the trip alongside top industry leaders, including the CEOs of BMW, Bayer, Deutsche Bank, and Volkswagen, in order to shore up relations with Germany’s top trading partner as relations with its largest energy importer, Russia, have collapsed over the past year.
Speaking alongside soon-to-be-ousted Premier Li Keqiang, Scholz said in remarks reported by AFP: “We do not believe in ideas of decoupling [from Communist China] but it is also clear that that has something to do with economic ties as equals, with reciprocity.”
The statement has raised eyebrows, given that Xi Jinping was last month granted a third term as the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — the only such leader since Mao Zedong to be elevated to such a status — meaning that the so-called “paramount leader” (read: emperor) likely sees no one on the world stage as his equal.
Indeed, Maximilian Terhalle, Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Potsdam, said in response to the comments from Scholz: “China does not see us as equal, Germany is only an instrument.”
The state visit from Scholz has been a centre of controversy in his home country and throughout the West, with fears being expressed that Germany is once again embarking on the path of becoming over-reliant upon dictatorial regimes for the sake of its economy.
Last month, the heads of Germany’s intelligence apparatus collectively warned that the Scholz government was being “naive” in trying to deepen economic ties with China on the heels of falling into an energy crisis due to its Russian gas addiction.
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He’s been in Xi’s pocket for some time now and has secured a US$17 billion contract for 140 planes from Airbus, thus ensuing Germany’s neutrality, when or if, Xi invades, or tries to invade Taiwan
Scholtz is in China while other EU parliamentarians including Germans are visiting Taiwan; China is not impressed with the silly game being played.
The Chinese Communist Party will eat Scholtz’s Lunch
They essentially did.
Scholtz was lectured by Xi.
Scholz is a stooge with neither guts nor personality for this, as was evident in Xi’s lecturing of him. He couldn’t even bring himself to announce the identity of the culprits behind NS1&2 attacks.
C U A
Imagine Western concerns about Germany being controlled by a “ dictatorial” power….
Or maybe, it just depends on which “dictatorial power” is telling Germany what to do and limiting its options by destroying its energy infrastructure and economy
Another perspective
http://thesaker.is/berlin-goes-to-beijing-the-real-deal/
“According to these sources, the Scholz caravan went to Beijing to essentially lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia, with China as privileged messenger.
This is – literally – as explosive, geopolitically and geoeconomically, as it gets. As I pointed out in one of my previous columns, Berlin and Moscow were keeping a secret communication back channel – via business interlocutors – right to the minute the usual suspects, in desperation, decided to blow up the Nord Streams.
Cue to the now notorious SMS from Liz Truss’s iPhone to Little Tony Blinken, one minute after the explosions: “It’s done.”
There’s more: the Scholz caravan may be trying to start a long and convoluted process of eventually replacing the US with China as a key ally. One should never forget that the top BRI trade/connectivity terminal in the EU is Germany (the Ruhr valley).
According to one of the sources, “if this effort is successful, then Germany, China and Russia can ally themselves together and drive the US out of Europe.”
Another source provided the cherry on the cake: “Olaf Scholz is being accompanied on this trip by German industrialists who actually control Germany and are not going to sit back watching themselves being destroyed.”
As Germany kowtows to China, Volkswagen says screw you to Twitter and Musk. Krauts will be krauts. Over a century, governments come and go, but they never change. Isn’t it finally time to pull our troops from Germany? Or is it that we fear the rise of a nother Hitler, 77 years after his death.
So sowwy, stupid German. But we not equals. You my b!tch.
“According to these sources, the Scholz caravan went to Beijing to essentially lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia”
Yep, Germany is wondering why they’re taking the worst punishment from the Suicide Sanctions on Russia, and likely want to put an end to this war before the Neocons manage to fully de-industrialize Germany.
What could go wrong?
Olaf Schultz and the other Kraut...klaus Whatever...are interchangeable.
DO NOT LET THE GERMANS AND THEIR OFFSPRING HAVE ANY...A.N.Y. SAY IN HOW THE WORLD SHOULD BE.
HATE TO SAY IT BUT GERMANICS ARE THE DEVIL for some reason.
More evidence that the corrupt US deep-state has got us into a useless, masochistic, suicidal WWI-style war in Europe. Russia, Europe, certainly Ukraine - and yes, the USA, will all be economically and socially wounded by this war
And meanwhile, China and India sit on the sidelines, waiting to pick up the pieces.
And these are the “conservatives”!
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