The picture shows the President of the Legislative Council, You Xikun, receiving and having a banquet with the "Senior Members of the Free Democratic Party of Germany's National Defense, Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committee".

(Picture provided by the Legislative Yuan)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Beijing earlier and was considered unwilling to take a tough attitude towards China. However, the German Congress delegation visited Taiwan on the 9th of this month and expressed that Germany and Taiwan are friends. Experts analyze Germany's diplomatic route in the Asia-Pacific.

The BBC reported that Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, chairman of the National Defense Committee of the German Parliament, and Johannes Vogel, vice-chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, led members of Congress to visit Taiwan. Strack-Zimmermann said that Germany and Taiwan are friends. Russia's aggression against Ukraine has sounded the alarm for the whole world. The members of the German parliament came to Taiwan to tell the world that democratic countries stand closely together.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin asked German politicians to abide by the one-China principle and not allow some forces to turn the Asia-Pacific into an arena for geopolitical games in order to maintain their hegemony.

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Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, a former political adviser to the European Parliament, analyzed the visits to China and Taiwan by the German chancellor and members of parliament. Europe and the democracies around the world are worried about the future of Taiwan, but Europe has no corresponding plan. Therefore, representatives of the European Parliament The mission helps to understand the situation in Taiwan and prepare member states, but he also pointed out that Germany's political and economic elites are still divided on how to deal with China.

Zhang Mengren, director and associate professor of the Italian Department of Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, said that from the perspective of market interests, Germany cannot withstand China's persecution, so it presents a situation where the Congress is friendly to Taiwan, but companies "follow China".