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🇨🇳s Außenminister #WangYi ist in 🇩🇪. Die BuReg muss nun Tacheles reden: das #Sicherheitsgesetz in Hongkong, Chinas Druck auf #Taiwan & die Unterdrückung der #Uiguren müssen auf den Tisch.Ohne #Menschenrechte und #Rechtssicherheit kann es kein 🇪🇺-🇨🇳-Investitionsabkommen geben.— Annalena Baerbock (Archiv) (@ABaerbockArchiv) September 1, 2020
🇨🇳s Außenminister #WangYi ist in 🇩🇪. Die BuReg muss nun Tacheles reden: das #Sicherheitsgesetz in Hongkong, Chinas Druck auf #Taiwan & die Unterdrückung der #Uiguren müssen auf den Tisch.Ohne #Menschenrechte und #Rechtssicherheit kann es kein 🇪🇺-🇨🇳-Investitionsabkommen geben.
Translation: 🇨🇳's Foreign Minister #WangYi is in 🇩🇪. The BuReg now has to talk Result: the #security law in Hong Kong, China's pressure on #Taiwan & the oppression of the #Uyghurs must be on the table. Without #humanrights and #legal certainty there can be no 🇪🇺-🇨🇳 investment agreement. Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
Foreign minister first to visit Pasch school and a German company producing wind turbines Germany's government appealed for efforts to reduce tensions over Taiwan as the German foreign minister arrived in China on Thursday for official talks following Chinese military exercises near the self-governed island democracy that Beijing claims is part of its territory. Annalena Baerbock arrived in the northeastern port city of Tianjin for meetings and was due to hold talks with her Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang, on Friday in Beijing and with senior diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday. Her ministry said she would discuss Taiwan, Ukraine, human rights and other issues with Chinese officials. China's ruling Communist Party sent warships and fighter planes near Taiwan last weekend in retaliation for a meeting between U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen. "Threatening military gestures" increase "the risk of unintentional military confrontations," a spokesperson for Baerbock's ministry, Andrea Sasse, said in Berlin.
Germany's government appealed for efforts to reduce tensions over Taiwan as the German foreign minister arrived in China on Thursday for official talks following Chinese military exercises near the self-governed island democracy that Beijing claims is part of its territory.
Annalena Baerbock arrived in the northeastern port city of Tianjin for meetings and was due to hold talks with her Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang, on Friday in Beijing and with senior diplomat Wang Yi on Saturday. Her ministry said she would discuss Taiwan, Ukraine, human rights and other issues with Chinese officials.
China's ruling Communist Party sent warships and fighter planes near Taiwan last weekend in retaliation for a meeting between U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
"Threatening military gestures" increase "the risk of unintentional military confrontations," a spokesperson for Baerbock's ministry, Andrea Sasse, said in Berlin.
During first stop of her China trip, German FM Baerbock warns in Tianjin that Germany has "dependencies [on China] in some areas that aren't healthy.""It's clear that the lessons we learn from the Russian war of aggression must, of course, also be learned with China in mind."— Hans von der Burchard (@vonderburchard) April 13, 2023
During first stop of her China trip, German FM Baerbock warns in Tianjin that Germany has "dependencies [on China] in some areas that aren't healthy.""It's clear that the lessons we learn from the Russian war of aggression must, of course, also be learned with China in mind."
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