{"id":524595,"date":"2025-10-24T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524595\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:24:11","slug":"diplomatic-bombshell-as-german-foreign-minister-postpones-china-trip-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/524595\/","title":{"rendered":"Diplomatic bombshell as German foreign minister postpones China trip \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours earlier, German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche announced that Berlin was lodging a diplomatic protest against China for blocking semiconductor shipments. &#8220;We have been hit hard by the chip shortage because the German economy depends on these chips,&#8221; she said in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Wadephul also noted that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/china-provide-crucial-support-enable-vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-germany-johann-wadephul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China was providing &#8220;crucial&#8221; support to Russia<\/a>\u00a0that enabled President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s ongoing war against Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister was originally scheduled to depart for China on Sunday. Wadephul had planned to press Beijing to ease export restrictions on rare earths and semiconductors, he told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/german-foreign-minister-press-china-semiconductors-beijing-trip-2025-10-23\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday \u2014 and discuss pushing Russia toward negotiations to end its war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels, for its part, is pressing ahead in talks with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission on Friday told reporters that it \u201ccan confirm that both in-person and virtual high-level technical meetings will take place next week\u201d after the bloc&#8217;s Commissioner for Trade Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d spoke to his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few hours earlier, German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche announced that Berlin was lodging a diplomatic protest against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1395,2000,8812,299,11070,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-524595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-china-relations","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-german-politics","13":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115428895206413690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}