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Olaf Scholz takes one day to prove his duplicity on China

By Tom Rogan
Published May 11, 2023 7:25pm ET
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Olaf Scholz takes one day to prove his duplicity on China
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempted this week to spin his China policy as something other than the strategic prostration policy that it is. Which is to say, a replicant of the policy French President Emmanuel Macron adopts toward Beijing. As I noted on Wednesday, however, Scholz remains ensconced in the European Union’s China appeasement bloc. […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempted this week to spin his China policy as something other than the strategic prostration policy that it is. Which is to say, a replicant of the policy French President Emmanuel Macron adopts toward Beijing. As I noted on Wednesday, however, Scholz remains ensconced in the European Union’s China appeasement bloc.

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