Criticism of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China has not exactly been silent. Friday’s trip to Beijing, which was also attended by CEOs of Volkswagen, BMW, BASF, Bayer, Deutsche Bank and the vaccine maker Biontech in the entourage of the SPD chancellor, undermines cooperation with the West, according to the Dutch left-wing liberal newspaper People’s Market Newspaper. Madrid’s “El País” complained that Germany was ignoring warnings about China, which – at Scholz’s personal initiative – had just bought the port of Hamburg.
