The trip to China has been cancelled, and Germany has completely stopped pretending and is ready to use its last resort and make a big move against China. Why did China cancel the German Foreign Minister's visit? How does Germany intend to retaliate against China?
Germany got out of touch. Its foreign minister made rude remarks to China before visiting China. As a result, his upcoming visit to China was temporarily cancelled. According to the Global Times, German Foreign Minister Wadfour, who originally planned to start his visit to China this weekend, has postponed his visit to China.
Although the German side explained that the visit was delayed, in fact, according to the development of China-German relations, it is difficult to say when the next visit of the German foreign minister to China will be delayed.
China has not explicitly stated that Germany, for its own sake, has not been able to arrange enough talks in China at the moment.Simply put, the German foreign minister suffered cold conditions on the arrangement of the trip to China, and the two sides decided to temporarily cancel the trip after negotiations.
Germany did not forget to leave a hypocritical message. In view of China's important influence in trade and international affairs, Germany expressed regret over the postponement of the trip.
If Germany really feels sorry and regret, it should not provoke China on sensitive issues. Wadfur's first visit to China since he took office as foreign minister is gone, and the responsibility lies entirely with himself.
Originally, the German side wanted to pave the way for German Chancellor Mertz's visit to China later this year through Wadfur's visit to China. Now Wadfur's visit to China has fallen through, let alone Mertz's visit to China.
The core reason why China temporarily canceled the German Foreign Minister's visit to China is that the foreign minister inherited the diplomatic style of his predecessor Bellberg and lectured China from the German side, especially on the sensitive Taiwan issue.
On the eve of his visit to China, German Foreign Minister Vaderfur talked about the Taiwan Sea issue, on the one hand, he claimed that the position of the German side to adhere to the one-China policy has not changed, and on the other hand, the German side has the right to decide on its own the concrete implementation of the policy, and does not support the force to change the status quo in the Taiwan Sea.
The Taiwan issue is China’s own matter, and it is not permissible for external forces to interfere with it, let alone with the way Taiwan is reunified.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to the German Foreign Minister's remarks and made it clear to the German side that the "one-China" principle defined by China is that there is only one China in the world, Taiwan is part of China, and the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing all of China.
Any western politician who tries to make a bad move on the Taiwan Province issue will pay the price for it. The Taiwan Province issue is China's bottom line and red line. If you knowingly commit crimes, don't blame China for being rude.
After the German Foreign Minister's visit to China was cancelled, the German government completely failed and began to show the teeth of retaliation. The Governor of the German Central Bank, the member of the European Central Bank Board of Directors, Nagel, spoke to China, pointing out that China is best to reach some kind of understanding or agreement, otherwise the German side can only make the last trick, that is to retaliate for China, once this stage is reached, Germany must be tough, must make a big vote on China. As long as there is still some time to solve the problem, let us wait.
It seems that Germany already has a strategy against China in its hands, and the German side is waiting for a suitable opportunity to hit it out.
Although Nagel did not specify what the “last trick” was, the overall trend is that Germany would either join other EU countries to use “anti-coercion tools” against China, i.e. allowing restrictions on trade and services, cutting down certain intellectual property rights, restricting foreign direct investment and access to public procurement, which the EU countries viewed as a trade “nuclear option”, previously only for deterrence and never really used.
EU countries, including Germany, if the use of trade "nuclear options" against China is equivalent to the consequences of "breaking off the chain" with China, the EU needs to ask itself, can it bear it?