'''Olaf Scholz''' (born in 1958) is a German politician from the [[Social Democratic Party]] and Chancellor of [[Germany]], succeeding [[Angela Merkel]] on 8 December 2021. At his inauguration as Chancellor in 2021, Scholz took the oath of office without a reference to [[God]], and was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany to not belong to a Church.<ref>https://www.derwesten.de/politik/olaf-scholz-amtseid-so-wahr-mir-gott-helfe-gottesbezug-bundeskanzler-kanzler-bundestag-id234040353.html</ref> Scholz is the first German Chancellor since [[Adolf Hitler]] to make the disastrous decision to send German tanks into [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://youtu.be/psl5tSj_sRo</ref> Scholz seeks to improve relationships with communist China and considers China as a partner despite human rights violations in the country.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/3eb6ffc10ccb47408d98e050e2e90d69</ref> | '''Olaf Scholz''' (born in 1958) is a German politician from the [[Social Democratic Party]] and Chancellor of [[Germany]], succeeding [[Angela Merkel]] on 8 December 2021. At his inauguration as Chancellor in 2021, Scholz took the oath of office without a reference to [[God]], and was the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany to not belong to a Church.<ref>https://www.derwesten.de/politik/olaf-scholz-amtseid-so-wahr-mir-gott-helfe-gottesbezug-bundeskanzler-kanzler-bundestag-id234040353.html</ref> Scholz is the first German Chancellor since [[Adolf Hitler]] to make the disastrous decision to send German tanks into [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://youtu.be/psl5tSj_sRo</ref> Scholz seeks to improve relationships with communist China and considers China as a partner despite human rights violations in the country.<ref>https://apnews.com/article/3eb6ffc10ccb47408d98e050e2e90d69</ref> |