Best overlap: 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Shenzhen is 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM in Berlin.
Target 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM in Shenzhen, which lands at 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM for the Berlin side. Since Berlin is 7 hours behind Shenzhen, the workdays overlap by around 3 hours; 3:00 PM in Shenzhen (8:00 AM in Berlin) makes a reliable recurring slot. Daylight saving complicates things slightly: Berlin observes it, Shenzhen doesn't, so the difference flexes by an hour part of the year.
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