The German president on Monday urged Beijing and Washington to intensify dialogue, receiving Premier Li Qiang when he hosted this year as China's policies on Russia, trade and human rights have faced increasingly hostile reception in the West.
Chinese PM holds welcome ceremony for German Chancellor
Li, who was appointed China's premier in March, is on a two-country tour, including a trip to France for a climate finance summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed the importance of ties between China and the United States for “global security and cooperation,” his spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin wrote on Twitter after the German leader invited Li for talks.
“He called for strengthening communication channels between the two countries,” she added, after months of tensions between the US and China.
