Declining birth rates are forcing Chinese cities to introduce political reforms. For a long time, Chinese cities did everything they could to prevent migrant workers from the countryside from settling permanently. A strict registration system, the so-called hukou, banned their children from kindergartens and schools. Now the cities vie for new residents, the South China […]
According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger intends to expand cooperation with China further. China is the ideal partner for the Bavarian industry and SMEs, explained Aiwanger after a four-day delegation trip that took him to Guangzhou and Shenzhen.Irrespective of the trade dispute between the EU and […]
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 behind the book was to bring […]
“We Indians love to compare ourselves with China,” writes Ritesh Singh, Managing Director of Indonomics Consulting. However, despite all the great things India has to offer, from an economic perspective, India has long looked bad in this comparison. Yet slowly but steadily, India is making up the ground it once lost to the People’s Republic.Just […]
The news about trade disputes, punitive and countervailing duties just keeps pouring in. So what is the World Trade Organisation doing? It is simply not prepared for state capitalism with Chinese characteristics. When China was admitted to the WTO in 2001, it was the world’s workbench and many believed the country would liberalize – a […]
China and India have reached a breakthrough in their talks over patrolling their disputed border. “Over the last several weeks, Indian and Chinese diplomats and military negotiators have been in close contact with each other,” said Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, India’s most senior diplomat, according to a report by Nikkei on Monday. They reportedly agreed […]
The Italian customs authorities will buy more than 15 million euros worth of equipment from the Chinese state-owned company Nuctech. The purchase will be financed from EU funds, even though the company is currently under investigation in the EU for possible violations of the subsidy regulation. The South China Morning Post reported this.The case shows […]
Germany is expected to hold the next federal elections in eleven months. Time to take a look at an issue that is becoming increasingly urgent: the fight against disinformation. Experts have observed that disinformation entrepreneurs, state-organized or not, have become increasingly clever. AI is also giving them entirely new possibilities. The Swedish government is countering […]
Since 2019, the Chinese state-owned company Cosco Shipping has been the majority owner of the deep-water port of Chancay, located on Peru’s Pacific coast, around 75 kilometers north of the capital Lima. It is scheduled to open in mid-November.The Peruvian authorities hope the 3.6 billion US dollar project will become a trade hub between South […]
Would you be tempted to get into a robotaxi and drive to your destination without a driver behind the wheel? You may soon have the chance. While Tesla boss Elon Musk presented his Cybercab in the USA a few days ago, the Chinese company Baidu is forging ahead with the international expansion of its Apollo […]
