China's top diplomat Wang Yi has signalled Beijing's willingness to join hands with Berlin in the face of global uncertainties, in a meeting on Wednesday aimed at preparing the way for a widely expected visit to Germany by Premier Li Qiang. "China and Germany should work together to make the seventh China-Germany intergovernmental consultation a success, and send a positive signal to Europe and the world", Wang told Jens Plotner, the German foreign and security policy adviser. According to the Chinese foreign ministry, Plotner said Germany is also "very much looking forward" to the consultation and will work with China to speed up the preparatory work. (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wang-yi-boosts-china-germany-093000846.html) The pair also "exchanged views" on the war in Ukraine, the foreign ministry said. Germany was among the stops on Chinese special envoy Li Hui's recent peace mission, which included visits to Ukraine, Russia, France, Poland and Brussels. There has been little evidence that Li's visit turned around widely held suspicions in Europe about China's close relations with Russia, which Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have hailed as a "no limits" friendship. Before his meeting on Wednesday with Wang - the most senior diplomat in China's party system - Plotner had talks with foreign minister Qin Gang, as part of the planning for Li Qiang's visit to Berlin. Neither side has confirmed a date for the visit, but multiple meetings have been held to pave the way for one of Li's first trips to a major developed economy since his promotion to premier in March.
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