Where do Germany's election candidates stand on China?
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(Clockwise from top left) CDU candidate Armin Laschet, SPD candidate Olaf Scholz and the Green Party's candidate Annalena Baerbock.
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Mr Armin Laschet, the conservative Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) candidate for the chancellorship, has frequently warned that a cold war with China is not in Germany's best interest.
"China is a systemic rival but also a partner," he said recently. Human rights issues must be addressed, Mr Laschet added, "but we must not break off all relations because of possibly different views about how to organise society".
