Meanwhile Germany's Olaf Scholz has called on China to use its 'influence' on Russia as the European Union weans itself off Russian gas, the leader of the bloc's biggest economy visited Beijing. But it has sparked controversy with members of his own government and elsewhere in the EU. China is Germany's largest trading partner, and Scholz's trip comes as two other drivers of its economy - cheap energy from Russia and low security spending - collapsed this year. FRANCE 24's correspondent in Brussels Dave Keating tells us more.
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