“Besides Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif, Tanzanian President Hassan and German Chancellor Scholz will also visit China soon,” rejoices the Beijing weekly Zhongguo Xinwen Zhoukan the 1is November, announcing the arrival of the “first wave of a ‘diplomatic boom’” after the 20e National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), which reappointed Xi Jinping for a third term.
About Olaf Scholz, “this will be the first visit to China of his mandate [depuis son arrivée au pouvoir, le 8 décembre 2021]but also the first Western leader to go to China since Congress, and the first European leader to visit China in three years”, highlighted Zhongguo Xinwen Zhoukan, who recognizes that “Scholz is under considerable public pressure [en Allemagne] about this trip”.
The Beijing magazine regrets that, even if China has been Germany’s largest trading partner for six years, and if the Middle Kingdom has become in 2020 the first trading partner of the European Union (EU) by exceeding the United States, “under the influence of the Biden administration, which is trying to unite Europe to contain China, and, in the context of the con