(COMBO) This combination created on November 1, 2022 of file pictures shows German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L, on September 16, 2022 in Berlin) and China's President Xi Jinping (on October 23, 2022 in Beijing). - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz makes a high-stakes trip to China on Friday, November 4, 2022, walking a tightrope between shoring up a key economic relationship and facing heightened concerns about over-reliance on authoritarian Beijing. Scholz, accompanied by a delegation of business executives, will be the first European Union leader to visit the world's second-biggest economy since 2019. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER and Noel CELIS / AFP)