In public remarks in China, chancellor did not throw support behind Brussels’ de-risking agenda and focused primarily on German business interests.

The Ukraine president says China could play a role in securing an end to the war, as he seeks Beijing’s backing for a peace summit in Switzerland.

Chinese leader tells the German chancellor that neither side poses a security threat to the other and they should continue to strengthen their economic ties.

Scholz is looking to boost trade ties but the visit takes place at a time when Brussels has started a subsidy probe into Chinese electric vehicle makers.

A recent report has found China has overtaken Germany in terms of certain exports, an elevation of status for the Asian juggernaut but a potential source of tension for already fraught bilateral relations.

In Jerusalem on Sunday, Scholz called for a ‘negotiated two-state solution’ to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying ‘terror cannot be defeated with military means alone’.

Russian media last week published an audio recording of what they said was a meeting of senior German military officials discussing weapons for Ukraine and a potential strike by Kyiv on a bridge in Crimea.

Germany accused Russia’s president of trying to sow disunity with the wiretap leak of a confidential German army discussion on the Ukraine war.

France’s Emmanuel Macron raised the option of sending Western troops to Ukraine, but Germany, UK, Poland, others say they have no such plans The Kremlin says such a move would inevitably lead to conflict.

The continent’s defence capabilities must improve regardless of who wins the US elections or how the war in Ukraine turns out, Chancellor Olaf Scholz tells a global security conference in Munich.

The leader will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin before flying to Paris.

Fears grow among European leaders that Donald Trump’s possible return to the White House might threaten Western solidarity against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The leader was last in China in November 2022, when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Ukraine’s president voiced the danger of the Ukraine conflict escalating into a world war, as he pressed his case for support from nations from Germany to the United States.

The chancellor warned that he doesn’t want Poland to just ‘wave through’ migrants after reports that hundreds of thousands of illegal work visas were issued.

Scholz suffered minor injuries after falling while out running on Sunday, forcing him to cancel some appointments that day.

Europe’s largest economy will ‘still be playing in the top league technologically in 10, 20 and in 30 years’ time,’ the chancellor said.

‘This is very important. Thank you, Olaf!’ Zelensky said in his evening address on Saturday, referring to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Germany also provided machine guns, binoculars and mine-clearing equipment.

The Chinese premier pitched ‘openness and cooperation’ as pressure mounts in Brussels to protect the bloc from economic dependencies and strengthen its resilience.

‘Risk prevention and cooperation are not opposites’, Li tells Berlin meeting of industry leaders.

The strategy paper calls China a ‘partner, competitor and systemic rival’, slamming Beijing over human rights and for acting against Berlin’s interests.

Premier Li welcomed representatives from the centre-left SDP, one-third of Germany’s coalition government, to Beijing on Monday.