China’s President Xi Jinping has pledged at the virtual climate summit to gradually reduce coal consumption from 2025. “During the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025), we will strictly control the growth of coal consumption,” Xi also promised. With this, the president made his expected comments on the issue of coal – which is China’s biggest climate […]
NATO will vote on its new approach to China in June. The meeting of leaders of NATO member countries will take place in Brussels on June 14, the defense alliance announced yesterday. “We will take decisions on our substantive and forward-looking NATO Agenda 2030 to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow,” NATO said. These […]
First, the more-than-frosty meeting in Alaska between Foreign Ministers Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, then the round of sanctions from Beijing against critical European voices. Diplomatically, the last few months have been from rather bumpy to openly aggressive for the Beijing-Brussels-Washington triangle. But on one issue, the EU states, the US, and China now find […]
China is testing the future of internet technology with an experimental network. The starting signal was given at the opening of the “Future Internet Technology Infrastructure” (FITI) test center at Tsinghua University, as state media announced. Accordingly, FITI is to connect around 40 Chinese universities in 35 cities with enormous bandwidth and far lower latency […]
Initially, Mike Hofmann just wanted to go to China. “The coverage of the Summer Olympics awakened the China fever in me in 2008,” says the 37-year-old manager. Shortly after completing his studies, he was lured to Beijing by a six-month internship at Daimler.That was 14 years ago – and today Mike Hofmann is still there. […]
A catchphrase when it comes to the China-EU Investment Agreement (CAI) is “level playing field”. The CAI is supposed to guarantee European companies (better) access to the market in China. However, in its trade policy with the People’s Republic, including the CAI, the EU Commission has so far ignored an important point, warns the think […]
The EU foreign ministers adopted the international community’s Indo-Pacific strategy yesterday, Monday. The European Union wants to strengthen its influence in various areas to protect EU interests and counter China’s rise to power in the Indo-Pacific region. However, according to a report by Reuters, EU diplomats stressed that the strategy was not explicitly aimed at […]
In a new report, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses China of serious human rights violations against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang and outlines how they meet the criteria for crimes against humanity. The Chinese leadership is responsible for systematic policies of mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, among other things, says […]
Rome has welcomed the end of talks over a possible sale of Italian truck and bus brand Iveco to China’s FAW Jiefang. The Italian government considers trucks a “strategic national interest”, Industry Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti told Reuters news agency. Iveco is part of Dutch-British group CNH Industrial, which in turn is controlled by Exor, the […]
When Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and China’s President Xi Jinping spoke to each other at the end of December 2020 to cement the political agreement on the EU-China Investment Agreement (CAI) together with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Council President Charles Michel, there was discreet amazement among Brussels observers. Why did […]
