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Third: “Competition stimulates enterprise. Competition is wholesome – so long as it’s truthful.” With this in mind, he wanted to discuss in Beijing “how we are able to discover a treatment the place systemic overcapacity, export restrictions and entry restrictions distort competitors and forestall us from exploiting the potential of our partnership.”

Fourthsaid Merz: “China has risen to the ranks of the good powers. Our China coverage should take this into consideration. We can not keep away from China. The
Today, main international political points can not be addressed with out involving Beijing. This applies no matter elementary systemic variations between China and Germany.” Cooperation is needed above all to put an end to the war in Ukraine, said the Chancellor. “China’s energy, its monumental affect will probably be a decisive issue right here. Beijing’s voice will probably be heard, together with in Moscow.”

Fifth Merz emphasized: “We Germans embed our coverage in direction of China in a European method.” Therefore, according to Merz, it is no coincidence that French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and himself are traveling to Beijing within a few weeks before US President Donald Trump flies to Beijing in April. Government circles emphasize that Merz exchanged ideas with Paris, London and Brussels before his trip.

Merz is scheduled to land in Beijing on Wednesday afternoon local time. He is then received with military honors by Chinese Premier Li Qiang in the Great Hall of the People. Merz will then take part in the German-Chinese dialogue forum, which will bring together around a dozen German and Chinese representatives from politics, business, science, society and culture. On the other hand, Merz takes part in the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the German-Chinese Economy. The meeting with state and party leader Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guest House follows in the early evening.

On Thursday, Merz will visit the Forbidden City and a demonstration of autonomous Mercedes cars in Beijing before taking a flight to the east coast metropolis of Hangzhou at midday. There, Merz will visit the Chinese robot manufacturer Unitree and then a branch of the turbine manufacturer Siemens Energy.

On Tuesday, Beijing once again called for economic relations to continue as they were. China’s Foreign Office spokeswoman Mao Ning emphasized that “because the world’s second and third largest economies, a optimistic growth of German-Chinese relations is within the curiosity of each side.” State media said that given sluggish European growth, a weakening of economic ties with China was “unthinkable from a long-term nationwide perspective.”