Li Hongtao will join investment company Stratos as Head of Greater China. Li previously worked at Airbus, where he most recently held the position of Sales Director China. His expertise is in demand at Stratos because the company specializes in investments in the aviation industry.
Today’s technological standards do not yet possess the political significance that they will have in 20 years’ time. Simply because many future technologies have not yet reached broad market maturity. But Europe must be prepared for the People’s Republic of China to turn the development of standards into geopolitical power. The experience made during the […]
The central Chinese province of Henan wants to place journalists and foreign students under close surveillance. This is revealed by documents analyzed by Reuters. The plan is to precisely track the movement profiles of members of the two groups, among other “suspicious persons” in Henan in the future.A corresponding announcement on the provincial government’s website […]
The drive along the six- and in places eight- and ten-lane Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai offers a fascinating insight into the birth of a city from the vial. At a maximum speed of 100 km/h, there is plenty of time to marvel at the bulky facades of the skyscrapers to the left and right. […]
In a joint effort, journalists and human rights activists have pressed for the release of Chinese Covid blogger Zhang Zhan. On Monday morning, journalists as well as Amnesty International, the authors’ association PEN, Reporters Without Borders, the German Journalists’ Union and the German Journalists Associationflooded short message service Twitter with corresponding posts.The tweets are coupled […]
Streaming provider Disney+ has removed China-critical episode from cartoon series The Simpsons from its Hong Kong service. The 2005 episode is about a visit to Beijing by the bug-eyed US cartoon family and draws various satirical connections to the Tiananmen Square massacre, nation founder Mao Zedong or the occupation of Tibet.The episode, for example, features […]
Disclaimer: This interview has been translated into English and is not considered an official translation by any party involved in the interview.Mr. Lyncker, next year Zhou Guanyu will be the first Chinese to drive for Alfa Romeo in Formula 1, the world’s most prestigious and lucrative motorsport racing series. Did the news come as a surprise to you?Only to a certain extent. Zhou brings the greatest possible talent. Having started out in karting, he […]
His fight for an independent Hong Kong has ended for 20-year-old Tony Chung with a years-long prison sentence for the time being. A court sentenced the activist to three and a half years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to charges of secession. Chung was the founder and chairman of the Student Localism movement. It […]
Sleep deprivation, beatings, and hours of cross-legged sitting: for 70 days in 2011, human rights lawyer Teng Biao was psychologically and physically tortured by Chinese security forces. For 70 days, the now 48-year-old disappeared from the face of the earth – locked away in a hotel that the police and state security had converted for […]
The case of Peng Shuai is also on our minds in the second edition of China.Table Human Rights. We spoke with the Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao, who knows from his own experience what means the state security uses to put abducted persons under psychological pressure.Listening to what Teng has to say, you wouldn’t […]
