A Chinese fighter jet dropped flares over an Australian military helicopter over the Yellow Sea last Saturday. According to the report, a Chinese Air Force J-10 jet dropped the munitions both above and several hundred meters in front of an Australian MH60R Seahawk helicopter.The helicopter was on a routine flight over the Yellow Sea to […]
China’s economic exchange with the Global South has increased significantly. The People’s Republic’s share of trade with 25 emerging and developing countries has risen from around 12 to 20 percent since 2010, according to the German magazine Der Spiegel, based on an analysis by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). The US share remains […]
You might almost get the impression that there’s a permanent show going on here called “China Incompetence.” The latest episode is set in France. Even before Xi Jinping’s arrival in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron already broadcasted his demands on the French media. So far, so good. At the same time, however, he assured the People’s […]
Leif Axelsson has been Innovation Strategy Director at Zeekr Technology Europe since March. Axelsson has been working for China Euro Vehicle Technology AB (CEVT), the European innovation center of the Chinese e-car manufacturer, since 2017. He will continue to be based at CEVT’s headquarters in Gothenburg.Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at […]
Would you have recognized it? The night sky above Chongqing is illuminated by a choreography of 500 drones dancing in the air to entertain the crowds.The use of drones has come a long way in China. They deliver food, extinguish building fires or paint silhouettes in the night. In Shenzhen, 2,000 drones were deployed at […]
At the Munich Security Conference in 2014, then-German President Joachim Gauck reminded Germans: “Thinking about existential questions must be at the heart of society.” Almost ten years later, Gauck expressed his disappointment that his appeal for Germany to become more involved in security policy went largely unheeded.Few issues reveal this misguided development more clearly than […]
In the systemic competition with the world’s democracies, autocracies are increasingly gaining the upper hand. The Bertelsmann Foundation’s tenth transformation index, which analyzes the situation in the world’s developing and transition countries, diagnoses the continuation of a global trend. “In a growing number of countries, the opponents of democratic and market-economy reforms are at the […]
The last daylight falls over the cloudy skies above the huge development project on the west side of Jiaozhou Bay in the coastal city of Qingdao. The West Coast New Area covers 2,096 square kilometers of land and around 5,000 square kilometers of sea, making it one of the three largest urban centers in the […]
By acquiring German citizenship, the arrested Jian G. provided himself with a solid cover. From the outside, a decision to accept the German and thus reject Chinese citizenship appears to be a genuine concession. However, the evidence of the past few days suggests the opposite: G. apparently exploited his German passport to provide the People’s […]
Just one day after three German businesspeople were arrested on charges of spying for China, an employee of MEP Maximilian Krah from the right-wing German AfD party, Jian G., was arrested on Wednesday. According to the allegations, however, G. was not simply recruited to spy for China. According to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, the […]
