“The time has come to reconsider our own role in the world,” RIA Novosti quotes the text of the document.

The authors of the strategy assign Germany a leading role among European countries, the agency writes.

With regard to relations with Russia, the document, among other things, indicates that Germany has for too long relied on cooperation with Moscow exclusively in the cooperative sphere.

The authors of the document also point to the need to revise the foreign policy towards China.

Earlier, Scholz said that, despite the differences over the situation in Ukraine, the threads of negotiations with Russia should not be allowed to “break”.