The EU warns against Beijing’s announced change to the electoral law in Hong Kong. If enacted, such a reform would have“potentially far-reaching negative consequences for democratic principles and democratically elected representatives in Hong Kong,” EU foreign affairs envoy Josep Borrell said. The EU urged the authorities in Beijing to “carefully consider” the political and economic […]
China has reacted cautiously to Lithuania’s announcement that it wants to leave the 17+1 format. The news has been noted, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press conference yesterday. Wang took a clear stance against the plan mentioned by Lithuania’s government to open a business mission in Taiwan: “We are firmly against the […]
Chinese state broadcaster Chinese Global Television Network (CGTN) is once again allowed to broadcast in Europe. The French media supervisory authority CAS granted CGTN a broadcasting permit. According to information from China.Table, the German side is now also checking whether the station will be fed back into the German network. The responsible media institutions are […]
The group of WHO experts investigating the origins of COVID-19 wants to cancel its planned interim report, according to a media report. The background to this is, according to the report, also the great public interest: A summary report does not yet contain all the details, the head of the WHO mission to the Chinese […]
Switzerland and China want to expand their cooperation in the financial market sector. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer recently held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart and Vice Prime Minister Liu He, according to the Federal Department of Finance (FDF). The two ministers discussed prospects for deepening bilateral relations in the areas of stock exchange […]
Poland’s health minister has advised against using the Covid vaccine from Chinese manufacturer Sinopharm for the time being, according to media reports. Currently, there is still too little data to allow its use, Adam Niedzielski said yesterday, according to a Reuters report. Earlier this week, Poland had for the first time publicly considered the purchase […]
Lithuania has announced it will withdraw from the 17+1 format with China. The cooperation program between Beijing and 17 Eastern and Central European countries (CEEC) has brought Lithuania “almost no benefits,” the EU and NATO state’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, told public broadcaster LRT. “I’m not saying we’re leaving and that’s the end, but we […]
China filed the most applications for international patents in 2020. The People’s Republic thus outstripped the United States for the second year in a row, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) announced yesterday. According to the report, 68,720 patent applications were filed from China last year through the organization’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) – compared […]
Poland is considering the purchase of a corona vaccine produced in China. The issue was discussed at the request of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in a phone call between Poland’s President Andrzej Duda and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, according to a statement from the Polish President’s Office. According to the statement, both countries […]
With its Five-Year Plan, Beijing will send a clear message to the European Union regarding international relations: interference in internal affairs is not desired. Observers in Brussels expect sharp announcements regarding Taiwan and Hong Kong. But they also find areas in which cooperation can be achieved. Normally, China’s Five-Year Plans give little space to foreign […]
