German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has publicly rejected the notion that democracies should restrict their trade relationships with Communist China in response to Beijing’s degradation of human lives and international security. Scholz did so by observing on Tuesday that “globalization has been a success story that enabled prosperity for many people. We must defend it. Decoupling is the wrong answer.”

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