Security issues were the main focus of the three-and-a-half-hour meeting between German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday. It was their third meeting this year. “Direct and honest channels are more important than ever. We need to talk most intensively with those with whom we disagree,” said […]
When Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrives in Beijing on Monday for one day of talks, one issue will be very high on her agenda: the war in Ukraine. And the question of how Germany could persuade the Chinese leadership to scale back its support for Putin. Outwardly, the Chinese leadership has always emphasized its neutrality, […]
Changchun. Steel city. Motor city. This is where Puyi, the last emperor of China, once ruled the satellite state of Manchukuo as a puppet of the Japanese occupiers. The average temperature in January is minus 17 degrees. However, it can occasionally drop to almost minus 40 degrees. It’s a city perfect for heavy metal. Some […]
Chinese engineers and scientists have developed a cable winch system for use at extreme depths. The machine is said to be able to lay submarine cables at depths of up to 11,000 meters. This would theoretically make it possible to place cables precisely at the deepest points of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, […]
Chinese statistics are known to be taken with a grain of salt, especially official growth figures. In a country where even former Premier Li Keqiang stated in 2017 that he preferred to rely on alternative indicators to measure his country’s economic strength: the volume of rail freight, power consumption and bank loans – which would […]
In Taiwan, you are used to living with a high level of uncertainty. Now, with the election of President Donald Trump, you have to face a new level of it: unpredictability. I am aware that Mr. Trump has an image of unpredictability among Europeans. However, based on our experience with him during his first presidency, we have […]
The German car manufacturer Audi is currently causing a sensation at the Guangzhou Motor Show in southern China. The body of the new E-concept car, which Audi has jointly developed with its Chinese partner SAIC, only bears the letters AUDI instead of the four rings, the manufacturer’s iconic logo.In an attempt to build on past […]
The number of Chinese students studying in the US has fallen. Since the 2009/10 academic year, Chinese students have consistently made up the largest group of foreign students. Now, for the first time in 15 years, Indian students outnumber Chinese students in the US. According to a survey by the Institute for International Education (IIE), […]
ASEAN countries exported more to the United States than China for the second consecutive quarter. Experts see this as a sign that global supply chains are shifting in the wake of trade disputes between the USA and China and China’s slowing growth. According to Nikkei, ASEAN nations shipped goods worth 74 billion US dollars to […]
In your new book “The Idea of China: Chinese Thinkers,” which you co-authored with Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and Janka Oertel, Director of the ECFR Asia Program, you present Chinese thinkers and ideas. What was the idea behind the book?Our main idea was to bring ideas originating in China […]
