German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock set off on Wednesday on a week-long trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji where the focus will be on security policy and climate protection. Baerbock noted that the region is becoming increasingly important to Germany for strategic and economic reasons, especially given tensions with China over human rights, trade and Taiwan. Australia and New Zealand were “more directly exposed than we are to the violent gusts of wind that are being sent around the world by China’s increasingly offensive behaviour,” she said. They had a lot of experience with their …