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Xi, who secured a third leadership term two weeks ago, agreed that both leaders “jointly oppose the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons” over Ukraine, but refrained from criticising Russia or calling on Moscow to withdraw its troops. “We will continue economic exchange with China … But it’s also clear, we’re going to position ourselves to be able to deal with a situation at any time where there are difficulties – whether it’s 10 years from now or 30 years.”During his trip Scholz told business leaders, including the CEOs of Deutsche Bank , Volkswagen , BASF , Siemens , BMW , Merck and BioNTech , to not put diversification on the backburner, a delegation source said.