After the shock over Ant Financial’s canceled IPO (China.Table reported), China’s companies are venturing back into the Hong Kong market. The Guangzhou-based EV maker Xpeng is currently preparing its initial listing. They already trade in New York but are looking to raise another $2 billion in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported. The IPO is expected to […]
An agent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was forced to admit in court that he lied in order to smear a Chinese-born scientist. In the trial of materials scientist Hu Anming, a Canadian citizen, FBI investigator Kujtim Sadiku revealed an astonishing modus operandi. He said that after a Google search, he concluded that […]
The container mountains are visible from space. Satellite images show an uninterrupted carpet of predominantly reddish boxes stacked high on the pier of the southern Chinese port of Yantian. But what is most worrying is the small number of ships that have docked at the cranes. Usually, twelve of the cargo giants are moored here […]
The whirring in the air looks unreal, more like a video error than a real object. The artist Ai Weiwei remade his installation “Forever Bicycle” for an exhibition in Lisbon. Originally created in 2011 for an event in Taipei, it has been seen – in ever-changing variations – in several cities. Now it is the […]
China follows through with its announced crackdown on bitcoin miners. In Sichuan province, utilities are cutting power to 25 sites at the state’s behest. This is reported by the AFP news agency, citing reports on social networks in the People’s Republic. Earlier, the Beijing government had declared war on crypto mining on domestic soil (China.Table […]
China has administered more than one billion doses of vaccines. On Saturday, the National Health Commission of China (NHC) officially reported the status of 990 million doses. The vaccination rate is currently close to 20 million shots per day. So the one billion milestone was likely passed on Sunday. In China, about 225 million people […]
Klaus Mühlhahn is one of the most respected sinologists in Germany. Usually, he teaches at the FU Berlin but currently, he has been the head of the private Zeppelin University on the shores of Lake Constance for five years. In China.Table, Mühlhahn explains why a Communist Party that seems to sit tall in the saddle […]
Not much going on in the office? Blind zoom angle in the home office? Time to pat fish! Because 摸鱼 mōyú (“pat/petting/grabbing fish”) is the trendy Chinese language equivalent for lazing around at work. The internet word is derived from the old idiom 浑水摸鱼 húnshuǐ-mōyú or 混水摸鱼 hùnshuǐ-mōyú, literally “to grab fish in murky water”. […]
Hong Kong’s National Security Law is exactly as repressively applied as feared: During a raid on the Apple Daily newspaper, the police arrested the paper’s Editor-in-Chief and the publisher’s Managing Director, as well as three other high-ranking employees. Authorities accuse them of endangering the city’s security by “conspiring with foreign forces”. The Security Ministry cites […]
China’s economy is losing its appetite for corporate shopping in the EU. Chinese investment in the EU fell again in the first quarter of the current year, according to a study by research institute Merics together with Rhodium Group. According to the study, Europe attracted only €700 million from China from January to March. It […]
