At the end, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng shake hands and smile quite relaxed into the cameras. Lindner pats He on the shoulder. Their joint statement after the 3rd high-level Sino-German financial dialogue in Frankfurt am Main talks a lot about cooperation and agreement. If there were sticking points, […]
The visit of a group of sinologists to Xinjiang continues to cause uproar among German sinologists. In an opinion piece for Table.Media on Monday, emeritus professors Thomas Heberer and Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer explained their motivations and the circumstances of their trip to the region, and how their controversial article in the NZZ, in which they noted […]
Last week, images of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un on the cosmodrome in the Amur region of eastern Siberia went around the world; two dictators who hate the West and allegedly talked about ammunition supplies and missile technology. Not present: China.But Beijing likely watched closely from the sidelines. All that was made […]
Scholars of China in Germany have long since ceased to be a homogeneous group that researches the People’s Republic and its history together and in a somewhat spiritualized manner. Current politics, and with it the geopolitical conflicts, have long since taken hold of German sinology and researchers in other disciplines who are concerned with China.The […]
For a long time, sinologists in Germany have not been a homogeneous group, collectively and somewhat intellectually researching the People’s Republic of China and its history. Current politics and the associated geopolitical conflicts have long since caught up with German sinology and China researchers from other disciplines. Since Xi Jinping took office as head of […]
Shortly before the opening of one of the most important summits, the world still speculates about the recent cancelation of China’s President Xi Jinping. Is the 70-year-old exhausted from all his traveling? Does Xi want to avoid meeting US President Joe Biden at the G20 summit in New Delhi? Or is he showing solidarity with […]
At the beginning of the new Silk Road was a speech by President Xi Jinping in Kazakhstan. At the time, no one would have guessed that his idea of connecting Central Asia would one day lead to an infrastructure project worth billions. Today, the new Silk Road (also known as the Belt and Road Initiative, […]
Official statements from Beijing on the Ukraine war often sound either like an echo chamber of Russia or like empty diplomatic talk. There is no public discourse on Russian policy. Nevertheless, reports by Chinese academics sound more nuanced and are, therefore, quite interesting. “While the views of these intellectuals cannot be taken as a proxy […]
China continued to build and approve coal-fired power plants unabated in the first half of 2023. From January to June 2023, the construction of new coal-fired power plants with a capacity of 37 gigawatts (GW) began, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) on X (formerly Twitter). During this period, […]
The BRICS summit is dominating the global political debate these days. Since yesterday, Tuesday, the heads of state and governments of five large emerging countries have been meeting in Johannesburg, demanding more say in the global order: China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa. They see themselves as advocates of the Global South, which is […]
