German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the opening of the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday. Japan is a partner country of the 2017 CeBIT fair, which is a multinational event aimed at digital business.
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socrateos
Talk about a contrast to Merkel-Trump meeting.
igloobuyer
Wow, what a contrast with stoney-faced, man-child Trumps visit. Never thought I see the day a Japanese leader looked more statesman-like than a US leader (then there was Bush of course).
pacint
Major difference, which will carry over into deals, discussions, etc.
Louis Amsel
oh hey Shinzo, personal space!
Wakarimasen
Nice to see old allies renewing their friendship. As for deal and so on, problem is that the economic models of these 2 are too similar - not an awful lot of scope for reciprocal deals. Plus Germany is a member of EU so can't make independent deals anyway.
Tony Alderman
Merkel could learn a lot from Japan about what a sensible immigration policy is.
gokai_wo_maneku
After the stuff he said about women (and you now what I mean), no female leader is going to let Trump do this kind of hug (OK, semi-hug)..
Pukey2
Slave labour, disguised as training programmes, you mean?
Monozuki
Look like they have good chemistry. At least, Merkel may feel so.
goldorak
Well no question she could probably learn 'a bit' from him/japan but so could he. Germany has been a magnet for highly qualified and highly skilled young Europeans (particularly from Spain, Italy and south Europe in general, but not only) in recent years. No doubt Japan (who face similar demographic challenges) could learn a thing or 2 from that.