re: #201 wheat-dogg

Merkel was instrumental in getting China to allow the widow of Liu XiaoBo to emigrate to Germany. Merkel took the unusual step of mentioning Liu Xia’s case in a private meeting with President Xi, telling him she had a personal interest in seeing the woman be allowed to leave China.

I still recall how China dangled the prospect of a major monorail deal in front of Germany’s nose, got them to build a test stretch between Shanghai and the airport and then cancelled the deal and built their own based on the model that Germany had so graciously provided…