German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck will not meet Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday during his visit to Beijing, as initially hoped.
Habeck, who traveled from South Korea to China on Friday, said he will meet with “a whole host of Cabinet colleagues” on Saturday before leaving the Chinese capital for Shanghai.
Habeck said he has a relationship with Li dating back to Habeck’s time as a politician in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, so there is “a history we can build on.”
The appointment with Li was “not feasible in the morning before departure”, Habeck’s ministry said.
