International relationsGerman parliament panel cancels China trip over lawmaker travel ban
Beijing picks fight with what could become Germany's next ruling party
German Green Party member Margarete Bause, right, meets dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the airport in Munich, Germany, in this July 2015 photo. © Reuters
JENS KASTNER, contributing writer
August 10, 2019 16:15 JST
HAMBURG, Germany -- The digital committee of Germany's parliament has effectively called off a planned trip to China over Beijing's insistence that a Green party lawmaker be removed from the participants list because of her strong stance on the Asian power's human rights record.