Markus Söder in China: “He is exposing his proud country to ridicule” | EUROtoday
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Roth criticizes Söder's journey to China – “megalomania in the style of Ludwig II.”
Markus Söder holds a panda plush bear in his arms throughout his go to to the “Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding” in China
Source: dpa/Peter Kneffel
Markus Söder's (CSU) journey to China triggered vital criticism amongst Social Democrats. The SPD overseas politician Michael Roth accuses the Bavarian Prime Minister of “exposing his proud country to ridicule”.
DHe Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Michael Roth (SPD), criticized Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder's journey to China in clear phrases. The CSU boss is cozying as much as authoritarian regimes and “exposing his proud country to ridicule,” the Social Democrat advised the “Tagesspiegel”.
“Markus Söder is not the first state politician to try to pursue a secondary foreign policy. But rarely has anyone failed as badly as he did,” Roth advised the paper. Söder is damaging Bavaria and his social gathering, the CSU.
China denies European, German and Bavarian corporations precisely the framework situations that the dictatorship calls for for its personal state-owned corporations of their drive for international growth, stated Roth. “Nowhere can you see or feel anything about a partnership on equal terms. Markus Söder is not only counteracting the foreign policy of Germany and the EU. He exposes his proud country to ridicule. The Bavarian Prime Minister has made himself a willing companion of autocrats and the laughing stock of political professionals. Cui bono? Simply no one.”
Söder was the primary German Prime Minister to go to China for the reason that finish of the corona pandemic. Among different issues, he met Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang. After the dialog, Söder stated he hoped for higher aggressive situations for German corporations in China and for the dismantling of commerce restrictions on agricultural merchandise from Bavaria. The demand for a good, clear partnership met with “open ears” from Li Qiang.
Söder additionally reported that he had lobbied the Chinese Prime Minister to make sure that all agricultural merchandise, together with pork, could possibly be delivered to China once more – and that he additionally felt “great openness” there. It was a really appreciative dialog, stated Söder. “We received a very, very friendly welcome.” He himself addressed “all topics” in a pleasant but in addition very severe method. “We’re already talking on equal terms – and that’s something special.”
“Megalomania in the style of Ludwig II.”
Roth can’t take these statements severely. He in contrast Söder in China with the previous Bavarian “fairytale king” Ludwig II. In China, Söder had proven “megalomania in the style of Ludwig II,” stated the SPD man: “The Bavarian regional politician boldly claims that there is a difference between the Free State and the Communist regime China there is a partnership on equal terms. If it weren’t so sad, you’d have to laugh.”
Söder utterly ignores the truth that the “overdue change in strategy and policy by Germany and the EU in dealing with China” was preceded by a dramatic change in technique and coverage in Beijing.
https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article250818140/Markus-Soeder-in-China-Er-gibt-sein-stolzes-Land-der-Laecherlichkeit-preis.html