German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Beijing on Thursday as the first Western leader to visit China since the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Scholz, who is leading a delegation of senior German business leaders, is presenting his visit as a regular event, providing an important political contact between Asia and Europe’s single biggest economies.
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