Söder tightens the tone in China: clear demands on Beijing. “The economy needs fairness,” he says at a meeting with Chinese Trade Minister Wang Wentao.

Söder also wants to address human rights and the war in Ukraine It almost sounds as if the Germans and French are playing good cop and bad cop in China, says Mike Schier. The Bavarian Prime Minister was walking with his delegation through the “Forbidden City” in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon when a few students from Germany recognized him.