Olaf Scholz is asking China to refrain from sending weapons to Russia. He believes China should use its influence to press Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine.
Addressing those who are demanding that Ukraine start negotiating a truce with Russia to end the war, he said that"love of peace does not mean submission to a bigger neighbor. If Ukraine stopped defending itself, it would not be peace, but the end of Ukraine."
"Our European peace order is defensible," Scholz added."Our ‘never again’ means that war of aggression will never return as a means of politics. Our ‘never again’ means that Putin’s imperialism will not prevail." German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers his speech at the country's parliament in Berlin, Germany, on March 2, 2023. Scholz urged China to refrain from sending weapons to Russia.GERMAN BABYSITTER SENTENCED NEARLY 15 YEARS FOR MORE THAN 100 CHILD SEX CRIMES: 'UNIMAGINABLE BRUTALITY'"This commitment, which I made here on Feb. 27 of last year, holds true," Scholz said, adding that the government would increase increase the defense budget as a whole to achieve this goal.
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