It was a post like it is found millions of times a day on Chinese social media: “You are the source and target of all my tenderness,” wrote a 28-year-old. But there two reasons why her tweet on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, is special in socio-political terms. The author is the well-known […]
The communist leadership has officially announced at a celebratory ceremony that it has achieved its goal of “modest prosperity”. “We have achieved the first goal for the 100th anniversary, building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, announced China’s state and party leader Xi Jinping. He spoke of a “Xiaokang” society, a traditional term from […]
Chinese astronauts have begun their first outside operation on China’s new space station. Taikonauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo left the core module of the “Tiangong” (Heavenly Palace) space station on Sunday, as reported by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. During their spacewalk, which is to last serval hours, they are to perform work on the […]
Disclaimer: This interview has been translated by China.Table and is not considered an official translation of the original interview.Mrs. Shi-Kupfer, July the 5th marks the eleventh anniversary of the violent clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Urumqi. For the Muslim minority of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the situation has been deteriorating for years. Yet […]
It was originally supposed to help Volkswagen achieve a breakthrough in electric mobility in China: The ID.4, the first SUV of the all-electric ID family. Yet, at least the debut failed in the world’s largest and most important sales market for VW.In May, Volkswagen merely sold 1,213 units of the model in China, about 200 […]
Within a few months, China has largely brought COVID-19 under control. Now the People’s Republic has apparently also won the battle against the infectious disease malaria. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday officially classified the world’s most populous country as malaria-free. “We congratulate the people of China on ridding the country of malaria,” WHO […]
A rumor that sounds like Donald Trump and his followers started it: The coronavirus may not have come about naturally, but at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. But this time, it is not Trump who is voicing this suspicion, but his successor Joe Biden. Biden is said to check the facts first before he […]
China is mourning the death of a very special pig: Zhu Jianqiang, which translates as “strong-willed pig.” Because that is exactly what it was known for: its will to survive. The pig had survived 36 days buried under rubble in the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province – with only rainwater and charcoal. According […]
China has dismissed reports by US broadcaster CNN about a possible leak at the Taishan nuclear power plant in the southeast of the country. Radiation levels were also not above the limits, the Ministry of Environmental Protection in Beijing announced on Wednesday via WeChat. There was indeed an increase in radioactive radiation. But this was […]
According to the Taiwanese government, there have never been so many: On Tuesday, China launched a total of 28 fighter jets in the direction of Taiwan, the island nation’s defense ministry said. Fourteen J-16s, six J-11s, and several bombers had entered Taiwan’s airspace surveillance zone, defined as an extension of a state’s actual sovereign airspace, […]
