The ups and downs of the Bitcoin price should be familiar to holders of this best-known and most widespread cryptocurrency. But the fact that the price would plummet so drastically within a short period of time cost even shrewd investors some nerves: The valuation plunged 25 percent to just under $30,000 on Wednesday afternoon, its […]
Until now, it was an assumption. Now, it is official: China’s population is growing more slowly than it has in decades. And even if, contrary to reports in some Western media, the population did not shrink last year, this situation will occur in the next few years. No one doubts that anymore. The decennial census […]
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell has held out the prospect that the other member states could also bypass Hungary in adopting their planned declaration on Hong Kong. So far, Budapest has blocked a rebuke to Beijing over the controversial electoral law reform. The Council of EU foreign ministers wanted to adopt the […]
Working as a China correspondent was not easy, even in the past. The People’s Republic has always been at the bottom of the press freedom rankings. But the work of foreign journalists in the Middle Kingdom has never been as difficult as it was in the past pandemic year. They were hindered in their research, […]
A taxi without a driver – Chinese internet giant Baidu has been offering such a service for a few days. As the AP news agency reports, ten Apollo Go robot taxis have been taking passengers through Beijing’s Shougang Park in the west of the city since on Sunday. Unlike previous demonstration rides (China.Table reported), there […]
Whether China’s population is already shrinking this year, next year, or not until 2027, as officials are still claiming at present, the question of timing changes little in terms of the problems associated with the consequences of the one-child policy. China’s population is aging faster than the country is achieving a sufficiently high level of […]
Audrey Tang has many designations. Officially, she has been Taiwan’s digital minister since 2016. In the rest of the world, she is best known as the first trans minister. She describes herself as a “civic hacker.”Civic, she means in the sense of the welfare of the public. And hacker to her means “understanding a system, […]
It’s still a draft but it is already making waves. The recent military maneuvers by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in Taiwan’s airspace may be a first response. At issue is the so-called “Strategic Competition Act“, a bill that the influential chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez (Democrat), along with Senator Jim […]
The people of Taiwan are actually used to provocations from mainland China. In recent years, military aircraft from the People’s Republic have repeatedly intruded into the airspace of the island with its 24 million inhabitants, and ships from the Chinese mainland have come strikingly close to islands that Taiwan controls. Apart from notes of protest, […]
The demand for ivory in China continues to decline. However, a small group still wants to hold on to the “white gold”. This is the result of a consumer survey conducted by the conservation organization WWF in cooperation with the research organization GlobeScan. According to the survey, only 19 percent of the people questioned in […]
