At the recent plenum of the Chinese Women’s Association, which only meets every five years, President Xi Jinping called for a new childbirth and family culture. Officials call for a higher birth rate. This is a new direction in the Communist Party, which has always waved the banner of equality, at least verbally. What’s going […]
The Taiwanese electronics group Foxconn is increasingly focusing on India as a production location. The government of the southern Indian state of Karnataka approved a total investment of the equivalent of 1.7 billion US dollars for the iPhone license manufacturer, as announced on Tuesday. So far, it is only known that Foxconn intends to build […]
Sometimes it takes pictures to demonstrate the seriousness of a situation. The Philippine government in Manila must have come to this conclusion, as it has recently published coastguard photos of intimidation attempts by Chinese ships in disputed waters. They show ships targeting much smaller boats with water cannons. It is a David versus Goliath battle, […]
Liu Zhenmin has big shoes to fill. The 68-year-old will most likely become China’s new climate envoy and thus succeed climate czar Xie Zhenhua, who made a significant contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement with John Kerry. As a grey eminence, Xie has had a great deal of influence on Chinese climate policy.However, career diplomat […]
Is China a developing country or not? This question already sparked controversy at COP27 in Egypt. And it also came to the fore at COP28 from the very beginning. After all, a lot of money is at stake: Developed countries have to make a financial contribution toward global climate action while developing countries are entitled […]
President Xi Jinping will travel to Vietnam next week, announced the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday. During the summit meetings with Vietnam’s Communist Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong and President Vo Van Thuong on Dec. 12-13, both sides will “discuss the expansion of relations between China and Vietnam, focusing on six key areas, including politics, […]
The European solar industry is currently grappling with how to handle the overpowering competition from China. The issues at hand include price declines, a surplus of modules from the Far East, forced labor in Xinjiang, jobs, resilience, and the necessary energy transition. Some politicians and companies are now considering trade restrictions against China; however, most […]
China has responded to heavy fighting between rebel groups and the ruling military junta with a military exercise lasting several days in the remote border region with Myanmar. Officially, Beijing speaks of a routine maneuver. However, during recent talks with high-ranking Myanmar officials, the country’s leadership expressed concern about security along the 2,100-kilometer border. In […]
Shortly before the start of the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, all negotiators know that effective climate action is impossible without China. Even if the delegation from the People’s Republic will probably be a difficult discussion partner at the conference: The days of China refusing any climate cooperation are thankfully over.But China will push its […]
The future Argentinian President, Javier Milei, is distancing himself from China. According to his shadow foreign minister, he plans to cancel membership of the BRICS group. “We don’t understand what the benefit (of joining BRICS) is for Argentina at the moment,” Diana Mondino told the Russian news agency Sputnik, according to media reports.Milei had already […]
