Traffic light coalition threatens China with sanctions

Brussels The traffic light coalition is correcting the strategic course set over the past decades at an astonishing pace. This applies not only to energy cooperation and efforts to achieve a compromise with Russia, but also to relations with China.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz made it clear on Thursday during his inaugural visit to Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida: “It is no coincidence that my first trip as Chancellor to this region of the world is taking me here today, to Tokyo.” Shortly after taking office Scholz called Kishida as the first head of government in the Indo-Pacific region – and did not initially seek contact with China, which the then Chancellor Angela Merkel had visited much more often than Japan.

At their meeting, Scholz and Kishida now agreed that the two export-oriented nations want to act more together against aggressors and for common values ​​and free trade.