At least six people have been injured and others buried in landslides following heavy rainfall in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. Citing local authorities, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported that three locations in the Bei River basin had experienced “once-in-a-century flooding” due to heavy rainfall, AFP news agency reported.Torrential rainfall has caused rivers in […]
China’s leadership has ordered Apple to remove WhatsApp from the App Store in the People’s Republic. The US company has already complied. Explaining the move, Apple said it is obliged to comply with the laws of the countries in which it operates. The Wall Street Journal quotes Apple as saying that the Chinese internet regulatory […]
Was it a tactical mistake on the part of the German Chancellor to have gone too far on China’s charm offensive and, with twelve top CEOs in tow, to suggest: business as usual? Or did Olaf Scholz have no chance from the outset? Or worse still: Is Germany no longer needed from a Chinese perspective […]
In the face of the growing threat from China, Australia presented its first national defense strategy on Wednesday. “The days of optimistic assumptions that defined defense planning after the end of the Cold War are long gone”, the AFP news agency quoted Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles as saying at the presentation of the 80-page […]
Farmers in Shandong province sow peanuts. China is by far the largest peanut producer in the world – estimates for the 2022/23 season are over 18 million tons. But don’t worry: There are no dependencies in this case. Germany still sources the majority of its peanuts from South America.
Lucas Rondez has been National Chairman of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce in China since the beginning of the month. He was previously confirmed as President of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce (SwissCham Shanghai) in March.Ashley Tay has been Transition & Transformation Manager at Schaeffler in Kuala Lumpur since the beginning of February. Tay was […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is trying to prevent what can no longer be prevented: punitive tariffs on Chinese EV imports. During a discussion with students at Tongji University on the second day of his China visit, he almost begged for fair competition.He said there should be no dumping, no overproduction and copyrights should not be […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz actually wanted to devote himself entirely to his favorite topic, namely urban planning. This was one of the reasons why he traveled to the Yangtze metropolis of Chongqing, where over 22 million people live on steeply rising riverbanks. But after news of the Iranian airstrike against Israel reached him on the […]
The United States has replaced the People’s Republic as Taiwan’s most important sales market. The reason for this is the high demand for microchips and artificial intelligence technologies, the Ministry of Finance in Taipei announced on Friday, according to the AFP news agency. A “reorganization of electronics and ICT [information and communication technology] supply chains, […]
According to a media report, China wants to ban foreign-made processors from its telecommunications network. At the beginning of the year, the authorities instructed the largest domestic providers to phase out non-Chinese processors that are key to their networks by 2027, the Wall Street Journal reported.This move would affect the US chip giants Intel and […]
