Vladimir Putin is visiting China again this week. There is no country where he is more welcome than his fellow autocrat, Xi Jinping. Yet numerous Chinese academics have recently been highly critical of Russia and its long-term prospects of success. Christiane Kuehl resolves the contradiction in her analysis: The bottom line is that from Xi’s […]
Xi Jinping’s visit to Serbia coincides with the 25th anniversary of the bombing of Beijing’s embassy in Belgrade by the US Air Force. What kind of political signal does China’s President want to send with this?The bombing of the embassy is the cornerstone of the Serbian-Chinese friendship – even if the relationship has only really […]
Europe is not yet technologically obsolete – and it must strategically utilize its remaining strengths right now. This is the key message of a new report by the Digital Power China (DPC) research network in cooperation with the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), which is to be presented this Tuesday. The authors stress the […]
The long-lost 3rd plenary session has been found. The top-level meeting on economic planning is now due to take place in July – nine months later than expected. Xi announces “reforms”, but from his mouth this could just as easily mean closing the markets and more repression.China observers have long wondered how the Central Committee […]
Economist Rolf Langhammer from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) speaks out in favor of making greater use of the trade policy instruments of the EU internal market against a Chinese “export flood.” “EU tariffs on electric cars would definitely increase the negotiating position vis-à-vis Beijing,” said Langhammer on Monday at the […]
Veranika Shykhutsina has been External Relations Manager at Merics since March. She previously worked as Finance Manager at Austausch e.V., a non-profit organization focusing on exchange and cooperation between Germany and Eastern Europe.Hugo Paleta Sanchez took over as Head of Powertrain Homologation for China, South Korea and India in April. Sanchez worked for VW in […]
China’s state security has apparently recruited three individuals in Germany to gain access to technical secrets, as revealed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The German police have arrested the three suspects, whom the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office accuses in the arrest warrants of spying on “innovative technologies with military applications.” […]
Between 2010 and 2014, Chinese attackers repeatedly gained access to Volkswagen’s computers and siphoned off company knowledge. German broadcasters ZDF and Der Spiegel reported this, citing documents relating to the defense against the cyberattack. Government agencies are believed to have been behind the attack. According to one of the insiders, a “trail” led in the […]
CDU politician Jens Spahn criticizes the lack of a unified line on China in the German government. The Chancellery, Ministry for Foreign Affairs and FDP are pursuing contradictory approaches. “None of this makes Germany any more credible and undermines any strategy“, Spahn told Table.Briefings. Spahn is currently on a trip to China; his visit overlaps […]
