{"id":225527,"date":"2026-03-29T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225527\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:21:07","slug":"bavarian-leader-heads-to-us-for-stops-in-south-carolina-and-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/225527\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavarian leader heads to US for stops in South Carolina and Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bavarian state premier Markus S\u00f6der is heading to the US on Sunday with stops in Texas and South Carolina on the itinerary as he seeks to boost business ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The highlight of his trip is a tour of the NASA Mission Control Centre in Houston. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) collaborates with the centre and S\u00f6der seeks to deepen this cooperation with a project on AI control in space travel planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">S\u00f6der said he aims to &#8220;forge alliances with key regions.&#8221; Alongside Texas, he is heading to South Carolina, where BMW runs its largest and most important overseas plant, in Spartanburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is also set to meet lawmakers including South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, a Republican. In Germany, S\u00f6der heads the conservative Bavarian party the Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to the Christian Democrats, governing at national level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A reception in the Senate and the House of Representatives are also planned, with discussions expected to focus on US tariffs and protectionism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To round off the visit, S\u00f6der plans to visit a historic site relating to the 250th anniversary of the US War of Independence, as the US prepares to celebrate the event. South Carolina was a pivotal area during the conflict with more than 200 battles fought in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bavarian state premier Markus S\u00f6der is heading to the US on Sunday with stops in Texas and South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87436,87437,87433,87434,87435,9915,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-225527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-bavarian-state-premier","tag-christian-democrats","tag-christian-social-union","tag-german-aerospace-centre","tag-markus-soeder","tag-south-carolina","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}