German Chancellor Merkel had a meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who attended the Munich Security Conference. She wrote: "An equal and solid partnership is essential. In this process, we will safeguard our own interests and values and stand on our own strength with confidence. Thank you, Wang Yi, for the exchange."
Comment: Merkel's remarks set a new tone of pragmatism and firmness for Sino-German relations: acknowledging the necessity of equal cooperation, maintaining the practical interests of Sino-German trade and industrial chains, while clearly placing its own interests, values, and independent strength first. In short, in the future, Sino-German relations will only discuss matters that can be cooperated, avoid difficult-to-compromise differences, maintain distance politically, and maintain necessary economic ties, neither deliberately intensifying nor actively breaking up, entering a pragmatic but distant normal state.
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