{"id":506401,"date":"2026-02-27T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506401\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:12:10","slug":"german-chancellor-ends-trip-to-china-by-attending-robot-boxing-match-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/506401\/","title":{"rendered":"German chancellor ends trip to China by attending robot boxing match | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German Chancellor wrapped up his visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a> by attending a robot boxing match on Thursday (26 February).<\/p>\n<p>Concluding his first official trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/beijing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/friedrich-merz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friedrich Merz<\/a> paid a visit to Unitree, one of the world&#8217;s leading robot manufacturers. There, he watched a boxing match between two 1.30-meter-tall robots. He also witnessed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/china-robots-lunar-new-year-video-kung-fu-video-b2922661.html\" title=\"China shows off nunchuck-wielding humanoid robots for Lunar New Year\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kung fu demonstration with the humanoid bots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the conclusion of the trip, Mr Merz said he would return home with \u201cdeep impressions\u201d and that he intended to strengthen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/germany\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a>\u2019s relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a good working relationship with China. However, there are also some challenges that we must overcome together,\u201d he said, before citing the overcapacity of Chinese industry as a problem for the German economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Chancellor wrapped up his visit to China by attending a robot boxing match on Thursday (26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-506401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}