Xi Opposing Nuclear Weapons In Ukraine Is Reason Enough To Visit China
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who came under fire for a trip to Beijing this week, said on Saturday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s joint statement opposing the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine was reason enough for the visit. Scholz’s comments came a day after he visited the world’s second-largest economy with German corporate CEOs, the first by a G7 leader since the COVID-19 pandemic. “Because the Chinese government, the president and I were able to declare that nuclear weapons should not be used in this war, that alone made the whole trip worthwhile,” Scholz said during a Social Democratic party event....