What's the point of a boycott of the Olympic Games in China?
Peter Sturm, FAZ Asia specialist, says: From the outside, practically nothing can be changed in China.
Why is the symbol still important for Europe to join the boycott - as Australia, the United Kingdom and the USA have already done?
And why is the Green Foreign Minister, who actually stands for a tough stance on China, swaying around on this issue?
Timo Steppat
Editor in politics.
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We are talking about this today in the FAZ podcast for Germany.
We talk to Johannes Leithäuser, FAZ correspondent in Berlin, who accompanied Annalena Baerbock on her first business trip.
Heribert Dieter from the Science and Politics Foundation speaks about a new China strategy of the German government and Julia Leininger from the German Development Institute talks about the worldwide wave of authorisation and how European foreign policy must counteract.
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