Comedians, comrades and the climate

Dear Reader,

Once again international news headlines have focused heavily on Germany this week due to Olaf Scholz’ controversial decision to travel to Beijing weeks after Xi Jinping had himself appointed Chinese leader for life. Scholz insists he’s a man on a mission. In an op-ed for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he said that he was “going as a Eur…