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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