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Marcel Grzanna

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 9th, 2021

Quiet and barely visible: the underestimated work of the United Front

After decades of rearmament, China’s military arsenal has reached a technically highly sophisticated level with considerable destructive power. However, instead of intercontinental ballistic missiles, stealth bombers, or aircraft carriers, President Xi Jinping declared the United Labor Front, as Xi put it a few years ago, as the “magic weapon” of the People’s Republic.This department, also […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 8th, 2021

Possibly 4.5 million fewer births in Xinjiang by 2040

The Chinese government’s birth control policies could drastically reduce the number of newborns in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region by 2040. An analysis by German anthropologist Adrian Zenz, obtained by Reuters ahead of its publication, predicts 2.6 to 4.5 million prevented births over the next 20 years.The figures support the thesis that the Chinese government wants […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 8th, 2021

The laboratory thesis and its consequences

The Chinese government has already let more than a year pass to prove its willingness to be unconditionally transparent in the search for the origin of the Covid-19 virus to the rest of the world. Contrary to its announcement of full support for the World Health Organization (WHO), it gave the impression of having predetermined […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 2nd, 2021

Qiu Ziming imprisoned for doubting death toll

Prominent Chinese blogger Qiu Ziming has been sentenced to eight months in prison for denigrating martyrs. In February, Qiu challenged the official death toll of Chinese soldiers killed in a border skirmish with Indian forces in June 2020. Chinese authorities had only belatedly acknowledged that four People’s Liberation Army soldiers had died in the clash. […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 2nd, 2021

June 4: Beijing fights memory in Hong Kong

Last Friday, Chinese human rights activist Wang Aizhong received an unpleasant phone call. Someone told him that his car had been damaged. He should come to the vehicle immediately to inspect the damage. Wang followed the request and found that there was no damage at all. Instead, he ran into a group of police officers […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: June 1st, 2021

Zhang Yiming

It is fair to say that Bytedance founder Zhang Yiming is not a particularly talented manager. That may sound silly because, within nine years, he has created a digital platform with his Chinese start-up that has kept its customers worldwide glued to their screens longer than Facebook, Instagram, and the like. But Zhang made this […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: May 28th, 2021

Marriage – no, thanks! Many women do not want a husband

It’s bad news for Chinese bachelors. It’s not enough that there are far more men of marriageable age in the People’s Republic than women, which is why tens of millions of men are mathematically falling by the wayside. Those ladies who are theoretically on the market are now also increasingly less interested in marriage.At the […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: May 27th, 2021

Autonomy: Tibet’s new president in exile wants to talk with China

The newly elected president of the Tibetan government-in-exile (Sikyong), Penpa Tsering, wants to persuade the Chinese leadership to resume autonomy talks during his term. Tsering told China.Table, “The Chinese government thinks it has plenty of time while Tibet is populated by more and more Han Chinese. This is tantamount to cultural genocide.” Tsering takes office […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: May 25th, 2021

SVOLT builds batteries for EVs in Saarland

Hard to believe, but Germany is slowly but surely turning into a popular location for battery production for EVs. Daimler has started manufacturing its own high-performance battery systems at its traditional Hedelfingen plant, Volkswagen is investing in the production of future-proof solid-state batteries in Salzgitter, Porsche wants to build a battery factory for high-performance cells […]

Marcel Grzanna Published: May 18th, 2021

Xinjiang: Attorney General could investigate

In the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang, the Attorney General could open investigations into crimes against humanity. This assessment was shared by several international law experts at a public hearing before the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag on Monday afternoon. The lawyers said that according to previous practice, the decisive factor was whether […]