On Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be the first Western leader to meet with Xi Jinping since Russia invaded Ukraine. Scholz is under pressure to take a new tack with Xi but the optics of his trip — 12 German CEOs in tow — has some critics worrying that it’s going to be business as usual. Marco Werman speaks with Noah Barkin, a Berlin-based expert on Europe-China relations at Rhodium Group and the German Marshall Fund.
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