James Hu is the new Vice Chairman of the China business of the US investment bank Morgan Stanley. He will strengthen the US bank’s presence in China. Hu has 15 years of experience in investment banking, including at Citigroup. Hu most recently led Bank of America’s investment banking operations in China as Vice Chairman.Bessie Yuan […]
It is not necessarily a good idea to flaunt luxurious – or perhaps just seemingly luxurious – jewelry to an audience of millions, as actress Huang Yangtiantian recently had to learn. Huang posted photos of herself wearing earrings that some netizens believed cost 2.3 million yuan, the equivalent of 286,000 euros. Netizens wondered how an […]
Numerous Chinese commentators celebrate Chinese military technology after the recent air skirmishes between India and Pakistan. “The outcome of the air battle between India and Pakistan has shattered the ‘military industry myth’ of the West,” writes a well-known military analyst who calls himself Perspective of National Peace (国平视野). According to an opinion piece in the […]
Benjamin Hirth is the new China CEO at Porsche’s IT consultancy MHP. This means that a salesman has been appointed to the post. According to his LinkedIn profile, Hirth started his career at Volkswagen in China before joining MHP in 2022 via a position at service provider Nordpack, as Account Executive and later as Sales […]
The pressure on Europe’s core industries is growing. The continent’s market share, jobs and prosperity are at stake. The driving force behind this development is China’s industrial policy and its enormous price pressure. But this is not the only problem. For years, sections of the German economy have witnessed firsthand how the People’s Republic has […]
Barbara Pongratz has joined Germanwatch e.V. in April as Policy Advisor for Sino-German energy and climate diplomacy. In this role, she deals with sustainable transformation in the context of Sino-German relations. At the same time, she has been a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen […]
Charles Michel has been a professor at the China European Business School in Shanghai since May 8. Michel served as Prime Minister of Belgium from 2014 to 2019; at the age of 38, he was the youngest prime minister ever elected by the Belgians in 2014. He subsequently held the post of President of the […]
The Chinese government has underscored its territorial claims along the disputed China-India border – the so-called Line of Actual Control – by releasing a list of place names. The Ministry of Civil Affairs published what it calls “standard names” for 27 locations, all situated in Arunachal Pradesh – territory currently under Indian control. The Chinese […]
The province of Henan, China’s breadbasket, has warned of dry, hot winds that will jeopardize the development of wheat plants and most likely affect crop yields. Extreme weather has already jeopardized agricultural production in recent years. And by 2030, eight percent of Chinese harvests could be at risk due to climate-related droughts. Climate change is […]
Many certainties of past decades are history: security provided by the United States, cheap gas from Russia, sales markets in China. How should Germany now strategically align itself?The question is: If you want to remain an export nation, where are the economic growth areas? The economists I talk to say that the China peak is […]
