Influencers on Chinese social media frequently experience an incredibly steep rise in fame. Li Jiaqi became famous overnight in 2019 because, as a young man, he managed to market lipsticks with high credibility on his livestream. The ease with which Li promoted the products in self-test in front of the camera made him a perfect […]
For the Chinese Communist Party, it’s hair-raising. It is wreaking massacre among its own people, and it actually manages to ensure that only a few shots of the bloodshed reach the rest of the world. The extent of the violence on the night of June 4, 1989, against its own population, which demanded nothing except […]
It was only about three minutes on the morning of June 5, 1989, that turned one man into a hero. An unknown man stands in the way of a Chinese army tank column on Chang’an Jie in the heart of Beijing, near Tiananmen Square. Whether the man is an active member of the democracy movement, […]
The upcoming Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee is entering his first term in office with full support from China’s central government. Three weeks after his election, the 64-year-old traveled to Beijing on Saturday for his inaugural visit. China’s Head of State Xi Jinping received him there on Monday and expressed his total trust in […]
Miriam Steiner is moving from Lerchenberg in Mainz to the German public broadcaster ZDF’s studio in Beijing. As TV correspondent, Steiner will strengthen Ulf Roeller‘s team in the Chinese capital.
China’s first free-floating deep-sea wind turbine, named Fuyao, is being towed into position by a tugboat. Fuyao is located off the coast of Guangdong province, where the water depth averages 65 meters, and is equipped with a typhoon-resistant 6.2-megawatt wind turbine.
To mark the visit of UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, the Chinese hosts came up with a particularly subtle gift. Foreign Minister Wang Yi presented Bachelet with an English copy of Head of State Xi Jinping’s “Respecting and Protecting Human Rights” – a collection of speeches and essays by the Party leader. The media-staged […]
The quarantine period upon arrival in China could be shortened a second time this month. According to media reports, only seven days of hotel isolation after arrival is planned. This is to be followed by seven days of quarantine at home, as before.However, a possible reduction has so far neither been signed nor officially announced. […]
The United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived in China on Monday for a six-day visit. Bachelet’s travel schedule will include a visit to Xinjiang. The autonomous region in the northwest of the People’s Republic has gained high international attention for ongoing human rights abuses by Chinese authorities against minorities. Numerous democratic governments […]
