“We look forward to Taiwan, Germany and other democratic partners jointly upholding regional order and prosperity.”
While Germany, like most countries, maintains no formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, Berlin is working on a new strategy aimed at taking a more serious look at its ties with China and reducing its dependence on Asia’s economic powerhouse. doing.
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, head of Germany’s parliamentary defense committee and a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s junior coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), told Tsai that Germany and Taiwan are friends.
Strack-Zimmerman said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a wake-up call to the whole world.
“That is why we come to your country, to your wonderful island, (to say) to the world that we stand together as democratic states,” she said.
China has expressed anger over the visit, with its foreign ministry on Monday pointing to Germany’s World War II past.
