By Zachary Keck
Berlin strongly rebuffed Beijing’s efforts to use Germany’s wartime past to shame Japan during Xi’s trip to Germany.
Germany has strongly rebuked China’s attempts to use Berlin in its ongoing public relations campaign against Japan.
As my colleague Shannon has reported, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Germany earlier today as part of a larger swing through the European continent that began with the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands earlier this week, and also included stops in France and Belgium.
Before Xi’s trip was even officially announced, there had been reports that Xi was hoping to use his time in Berlin to advance China’s oft-made claim that, in contrast to post-WWII Germany’s sincere atonement for the actions of the Nazis, post-WWII Japanese leaders have not made a large enough effort to apologize for Imperial Japan’s horrendous actions in neighboring countries like Korea and China. These earlier reports also made clear that Germany had strong reservations about going along with President Xi’s ploy.
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