From WorldPolicy.org
''Six decades after post-Hitler Germany outsourced its foreign policy to its Western allies, Berlin is again a diplomatic powerhouse. This week Chinese leaders and Syrian rebels alike are attesting to Berlin's clout.
In Beijing, officials are once again treating Angela Merkel as the real head of Europe on the sixth gala visit—the second this year—by the German Chancellor. And disparate elements of the Syrian opposition have just chosen Berlin, in tandem with Washington D.C., as the key venues for presenting their belated first coherent program for "the day after" strongman Bashar al-Assad is toppled.''
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