Li Mingjiang, you’ve been dealing with US-China relations for a decade and a half. Fifteen years ago, would you have dared to predict such tensions between the two states as we are currently experiencing?No, fifteen Years ago relations were quite stable and cooperative. Very few analysts had predicted such a rise of tensions that quick. […]
Detained Hong Kong democracy activist Andy Li has pleaded guilty to violating the National Security Act, incriminating movement figurehead Jimmy Lai in the process. The 30-year-old, who used crowdfunding platforms to organize donations from overseas for the 2019 protest movement, and a 29-year-old co-defendant confessed in a court on Thursday to “colluding with foreign forces”, […]
Not far off Taiwan’s southern coast, Chinese warships are once again circling to defend the “national sovereignty” of the People’s Republic. Only time will tell how far Beijing is actually willing to go to secure its claim over the island nation. Most certainly, however, the recent events in Afghanistan will have a strong impact on […]
An appeals court in New York has for the second time dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against a Chinese exporter of vitamin C. The judges ruled that the North China Pharmaceutical Group Corp (NCPC) could not be held liable for a violation of US antitrust law due to Chinese export regulations. The set of rules in […]
The Covid pandemic has accelerated a certain trend in Chinese consumer behavior. The exceptional circumstances of the past 18 months, marked by the fight against the spread of the virus, have made ice cream, milk or bottled water, for example, more sought after by the population. As for Ice cream, probably because Chinese households have […]
The Chinese military has launched an extensive exercise not far from Taiwan’s southern coast. Forces of the eastern units of the People’s Liberation Army 中国人民解放军东部战区, one of the five regional command bases of the People’s Liberation Army, are conducting assault drills including fighter jets and warships. A spokesman for the base justified these drills with […]
For years, the U.S. branch of China’s news agency Xinhua had successfully evaded its compulsory registration as a foreign outlet in the United States. Despite initial demands in 2018 by the Department of Justice in Washington, it took until early May this year before the state-run medium complied with the legal framework. U.S. authorities, who […]
The relationship between action movie star Jackie Chan and his hometown of Hong Kong was once a very special one. People loved the actor for his martial arts, his move, and his role as an ambassador for the city, whose image he helped shape since the 1980s as a comedic gadfly with outstanding kung fu […]
Only a few months after losing its listing in New York, China Telecom is planning the world’s largest fresh issue of the year in Shanghai. The company is China’s largest fixed-line carrier and is targeting proceeds of more than 47 billion yuan at a price of 4.53 yuan per share, the equivalent of just under […]
The tone of high-ranking German politicians towards the People’s Republic of China is intensifying. “Beijing does not want a fair intertwining of supply chains, it wants to gain control over markets and over the political actions of other nations, including Europe, including us in Germany,” warns Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) in an essay commemorating […]
