China’s New Year’s TV gala last week featured an entertaining bit featuring humanoid robots. This is no coincidence: The Chinese government sees them as an important growth market. The forecast: Outwardly human-like machines will increasingly replace housekeeping, care staff and factory workers. Conservative estimates predict a 38 billion US dollar market in as little as […]
For the new Trump administration, bilateral and transnational cooperation will always be defined with China in mind. Trump will not only continue the pivot to Asia, but will also increasingly ask: What do you think about China? This conflict between the superpowers will shape many of his decisions.China is increasingly forming a military and hybrid […]
A former senior advisor to the Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, was arrested on charges he conspired to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China, the Justice Department announced Friday. Rogers, who worked as a senior advisor in the Fed’s division of international finance from 2010 until 2021, allegedly […]
Peru’s welcoming culture for Chinese infrastructure projects is beginning to pay off. The South American country expects its agricultural exports to grow by two billion US dollars annually. One of several cornerstones for this growth is increasing beef and pork exports to the People’s Republic of China. It is based on the expansion of a […]
The buzz surrounding the launch of the Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek is still going strong. Italy has temporarily banned the download, while France is also investigating the application’s integrity. Fabian Peltsch took the opportunity to speak with Feiyu Xu, former head of SAP’s AI research center, and Hans Uszkoreit, co-founder of the German Research Center […]
Chinese social media accounts backed by the state have apparently made a coordinated effort to accompany the launch of the privately developed AI application DeepSeek. This conclusion can be drawn from observations by the online analysis company Graphika. The accounts involved in the campaign, including those of Chinese diplomats, embassies and state media, promoted the […]
Snooker has been firmly established in China for many years. In fact, numerous players from the People’s Republic now rank among the extended world elite – a development that was not foreseeable until the late 2000s. It has not yet been enough for a Chinese snooker pro to win a World Championship title, for example. […]
There is a straightforward path to ending our dependence on fossil fuels: nurture green industries – which would not only mitigate climate change, but also boost economic growth and job creation – and ensure that their output can be traded as widely as possible. Open trade would strengthen these industries, reduce the costs of green […]
The Chinese government has rejected responsibility for the fentanyl epidemic in the United States. “Fentanyl is America’s problem,” said a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday. The ministry reacted to the introduction of additional tariffs of ten percent on all Chinese exports to the US, which will come into force on Tuesday. US […]
Concerns about Chinese domestic consumption have at least been eased somewhat at the box office. On Lunar New Year’s Day last Wednesday, over 35 million people flocked to cinemas, more than ever before on a single day in China. Ticket sales generated around 1.8 billion yuan (250 million US dollars). On top of this came […]
