They are here!!! For the second time, the panda lady Meng Meng gave birth to twins on August 22nd at 1:03 and 2:19 pm in the Berlin Zoo. The excitement is huge. It is not unusual for pandas to give birth to twins. But the question is: Will they both make it past the first […]
Huang Qiang has stepped down as Governor of Sichuan and taken over as Party Secretary in Jilin. He is succeeded by Shi Xiaolin, previously Party Secretary of the city of Chengdu since 2018 (and probably the youngest woman to become a member of the Standing Committee of a province). This makes her the second female […]
China and Belarus have agreed to intensify cooperation in areas such as trade, security, energy and finance. This emerged on Friday from a joint statement published after a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko in Minsk.The two countries also plan to strengthen cooperation in industrial supply chains and further […]
Chinese space companies are only just starting out compared to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. But they are catching up fast. And there are a whole series of Chinese private companies that want to surpass the Americans.The chances are good. In true Beijing style, the Chinese leadership has declared space travel a key technology. Several dozen companies […]
A New York court has charged a former Chinese dissident with espionage. The Department of Justice accuses the 67-year-old Tang Yuanjun of acting as a Chinese agent between 2018 and 2023 at the direction of China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), its principal intelligence agency.According to the US Department of Justice, Tang provided the Chinese […]
Andreas Mischer took up a position in the economics research team at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (Merics) in Berlin at the beginning of August. Mischer holds a master’s degree in China Business and Economics from Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg. At Merics, he focuses on tracking China’s foreign investment, its industrial policy and […]
Ever since the Chinese leadership announced the so-called Social Credit System ten years ago, there has been repeated talk of China’s path towards an IT dictatorship and a total surveillance state. A lot has happened and been implemented since then. However, the truth is that there are many different models and there still is no […]
Youth unemployment in China continues to rise. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, 17.1 percent of 16 to 24-year-olds had no job in July. This is a significant increase compared to June, when the unemployment rate in this age group (excluding students) was 13.2 percent. This is also the highest figure since December 2023, […]
Car manufacturer BMW and its joint ventures recall around 1.36 million locally produced and imported vehicles in China. As the Chinese regulatory authority SAMR explained in a statement, there are potential risks with airbags manufactured by the former Japanese manufacturer Takata. The recall, which is effective immediately, affects cars produced between 2003 and 2017. BMW […]
This watermelon may already be ripe. But it could be even bigger. At least, that’s the way the food developers see it, who are presenting their giant watermelon varieties at the 23rd Agricultural Expo in Changchun, southern China. And every year they present a melon that is even bigger and tastier. We are already looking […]
