September 30, 2021

The curtain came down on the German Bundestag election on Sunday, meaning the country is officially on the threshold of a post-Angela Merkel era.

The results are in: Armin Laschet of Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Olaf Scholz of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) both have realistic chances of succeeding Merkel, despite the need for some complex coalition arithmetic.

With a period of uncertainty due to begin in Germany as coalition talks get underway, where will China-Germany ties head next? Will we see radical change or simply continuity with a new face? With these questions in mind, CGTN spoke to Mao Mingchao, a Chinese scholar, and Christian Mueller, a German scholar.

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