German chancellor Scholz arrives in Tokyo with a high-ranking delegation of six cabinet ministers — of economy and climate, defense, transport, finance, interior and foreign policy portfolios
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-japan-underline-mutual-interests-in-tokyo/a-65037729
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Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Nina Haase:
>The appearance of Robert Habeck, Boris Pistorius, Volker Wissing, Christian Lindner, Nancy Faeser and Annalena Baerbock – the ministers of economy and climate, defense, transport, finance, interior and foreign policy respectively – show that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has brought with him the highest-ranking delegation he could.
>It’s barely 11 months since the chancellor was last here. In April 2022, only a few months after taking office, Scholz embarked on his first trip to Asia – and made a point of visiting Japan rather than China, as his predecessors Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel had done.
>Russia’s war against Ukraine had triggered the start of a major rethink in Germany’s foreign and security policy, and highlighted the need to reduce whatever dependencies the country had not just on Russia, but also China.
>The German government is being accompanied in Tokyo this weekend by a business delegation. Scholz says he hopes the deepened collaboration between relevant agencies – like the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources – will give businesses a better idea where to invest in projects.
>On Sunday morning, the German delegation will leave Japan again. But Olaf Scholz won’t be away for long – he’s expected back in Japan in May, for the G7 summit in Hiroshima.
^1 Nina Haase for Deutsche Welle, 18 Mar. 2023, https://www.dw.com/en/germany-and-japan-underline-mutual-interests-in-tokyo/a-65037729
All under the umbrella of the Washington neocons.
Cliche axis joke coming in 3,2,1…
sorta relevant but how does one say minister in Japanese?