When The Return Flight Is The Only Goal: Merz Ends China Trip

When The Return Flight Is The Only Goal: Merz Ends China Trip Submitted by Thomas Kolbe It took some time for the supposed difference between Annalena Baerbock’s feminist foreign policy and the approach that the diplomatic corps under Chancellor Friedrich Merz would take to become clear. What has changed is less the substance than the performative act. Under the Sauerland-born Merz, tone and gestures shifted—the staging is meant to appear more masculine, sober in style, perha...

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