If you approach the Forbidden City from the south via the large Tiananmen Square, you will already see the famous portrait of Mao Zedong from a distance. It still adorns the famous gate to the Forbidden City, the old imperial palace. The same picture also hangs in millions of farmers’ rooms and administrative buildings. Although […]
Seven good-humored heads of state and government, plus the President of the EU Commission and the President of the EU Council, are on a podium on Cornwall beach and beam into the cameras. In the middle stands Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, host of the summit, arms wide open as if to signal: We’re all […]
The trade dispute between Australia and China continues to escalate. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to punish the People’s Republic. China de facto stopped imports of Australian barley in May 2020 by imposing tariffs of more than 80 percent. The Chinese government accused Australia of using government […]
The G7 call themselves the world’s leading industrialized nations. Yet one particularly big player is not among them: China. At least not as a participant; as a topic, however, it will dominate. When the heads of government of the US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, Canada and Italy convene for their three-day meeting in Carbis […]
A clear commitment by German business to human rights in China: The President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Siegfried Russwurm, appealed to German companies to insist on compliance when doing business in the People’s Republic. “China is a growing competitor that repeatedly violates global rules. As an exporting country, we must draw a […]
China’s National Bureau of Statistics said the country’s population already passed the 1.4 billion mark in 2017 – two years earlier than previously thought. The agency reached this conclusion after recalculating the figures based on last year’s census, which is only held every ten years, Japan’s Nikkei news agency reported. An error was found “in […]
China’s southwestern province of Yunnan is becoming increasingly popular among elephants. While the population declined to 193 in the 1980s, according to China’s official news agency, there are now around 300 again. Most of them live in a national park set up by the provincial government, especially for the pachyderms. However, one herd has now […]
The German government rejects turning away from China despite increasing conflicts with the communist leadership in Beijing. “In view of the strong, worldwide interdependence of national economies and the complexity of global challenges such as climate change, peacekeeping and fragile statehood”, the Federal Government considers “containment and disengagement strategies vis-à-vis China as an emerging world […]
Ms. Liu, the EU Commission has put the investment agreement (CAI), which had already been largely negotiated with Beijing, on the back burner. Was that the right decision?Liu Wan-Hsin: Of course, I can understand that it is difficult to move forward with this ratification process at the moment, given the political tensions between the EU […]
Conveniently, it was raining when 13 men meet on a pleasure boat on July 31, 1921, on Nanhu, a lake about 90 kilometers southwest of Shanghai. After four days of deliberation, they had to interrupt their meeting in Shanghai for fear of police spies. Given the bad weather, few other tourists are on the lake. […]
