While German Economic Affairs Minister Katherina Reiche is visiting Beijing , a delegation from the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament is in  Taiwan .  The Berlin-Taipei Parliamentary Friendship Group, a cross-party association of MPs that promotes international exchange, has traveled there to "strengthen economic and cultural cooperation with one of the region's most important democratic partners," the Bundestag said in a statement. Till Steffen of the Green Party is leading the