According to the latest Edelman Trust Barometer, 82 percent of Chinese people have confidence in their government. None of the other 27 countries surveyed even comes close to this figure.All over the globe, socialism has failed, except in China. The explanations for this usually boil down to Beijing playing unfair. And indeed, China has not […]
The Chinese government wants to raise electricity prices for households and lower them for businesses, Caixin reports. The NDRC, the development and reform commission, had recognized that energy was too cheap for individual customers but too expensive for businesses. How much the prices should rise and when the price changes will be finally decided is […]
The Chinese government has approved the fusion of two major state-owned technology groups into a new market leader. China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) is allowed to take over China Putian Information Industry Group (Potevio) as planned. This is reported by the Japanese business newspaper “Nikkei”. The fusion of the two companies will create one […]
The Berlin research institute Merics has examined the parties’ election programs in detail for their China positions. The result of the systematic comparison: The FDP Party program deals most extensively with China and takes a critical tone overall. The fewest mentions of the country can be found in the program of Die Linke. But the […]
This decade the roles have been reversed: China is coming to Germany as a technologically superior investor. “Europe cannot accomplish the shift to electric vehicles on its own,” Kai-Uwe Wollenhaupt tells China.Table in our Monday interview. In the interview, the European head of battery manufacturer SVOLT explains why his company is starting with cutting-edge technology in Saarland right away, […]
By 2033, China plans to add another feather in its cap to its successes in space. The country’s space agency plans to send a spacecraft with humans on board to Mars. As many as five missions are planned from that date, according to Wang Xiaojun, the head of the prestigious China Academy of Launch Vehicle […]
In her government statement ahead of the EU summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made several references to China. She once again explained the meaning of the reorientation of the NATO defense alliance (China.Table reported). “It is necessary to take direct account of China’s increasing importance,” she told the Bundestag on Thursday. Nato’s primary […]
Is communism atheistic? In principle, yes, but in China, the state grants freedom of religion, at least formally. That makes such arrangements of symbols possible: the red flag with star flutters proudly in front of this Catholic church. In the Communist state, of course, it’s clear who ultimately has the upper hand.
China is science-friendlier than Germany, as an international survey by the chemical company 3M shows. In China, 97 percent of respondents said that science and technology “open up hope for a better future”. In Germany, it was only 82 percent. 3M regularly surveys attitudes towards science in several countries. In each country, 1,000 adults are […]
The lotus flower is part and parcel of the China cliché. In fact, they can be found in large numbers – and here in Anlong, a county in the southwest of Guizhou province, they have overgrown the entire lake. Just like in the famous arithmetic problem that can be used to illustrate the effect of the exponential […]
