Mr. Khanna, in your book “The Second World”, you vehemently called for Europe’s emancipation as early as 2008. It should find its own role in the world and make its own decisions. About two weeks ago, the EU imposed sanctions on China for the first time since 1989. Is this the right approach?No, that’s no […]
Taxes in China are to be equalized between expats and locals in the coming year, as Finn Mayer-Kuckuk reports. What seems like a fair solution turns out to be a major annoyance for expats in Beijing or Shanghai: If rents or language courses are no longer tax-deductible, this would definitely have an impact on the […]
Tensions in the Indo-Pacific continue to rise (China.Table reports). On Sunday, the US deployed a group of warships around the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to the region. This is according to satellite data from Beijing’s South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative. In addition, a second grouping of US warships with the guided missile […]
The coronavirus has apparently jumped from bats to humans via another animal. That is the conclusion of a study by experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and their colleagues from China. It is the most likely scenario, says the draft of their report.Accordingly, the assumption that the virus could have escaped from a Chinese […]
The world is getting smaller and smaller. Thanks to modern Internet connections and advancing digitalization, information and data are sent around the world at breakneck speed. Whether it’s a Zoom meeting with colleagues in Asia, a Skype call with friends in Dubai, or streaming films directly from Bollywood in India – distances are becoming less […]
Historical caesuras can usually only be recognized as such from a certain distance in time. The current exchange of blows between China and the EU, with mutual sanctions and accusations regarding the situation of the Muslim minority in Xinjiang, already has the potential to do so: Europe has sat up and sanctioned China for human […]
Reciprocity is the great goal that EU politicians wanted to achieve through the investment agreement with China (CAI). Negotiations with Beijing have been going on for seven years, with the longed-for equal treatment being recited over and over again like a mantra. Now, at last, the agreement with the People’s Republic is in place. EU […]
The prices of houses and apartments in China have recorded the strongest increase in six months in February. This was reported by the Chinese statistics office in Beijing on Monday. According to the report, property prices in China’s 70 largest cities increased by 0.36 percent compared to January. They had already risen by 0.28 percent […]
For many people living in China, it’s the very first thing they do in the morning: not a freshly brewed cup of coffee or green tea, but a glance at the air values. They show how many micrograms of fine dust particles are currently in one cubic meter of air – and they determine the […]
China is working on a digital health certificate to facilitate travel in pandemic times. Foreign Minister Wang Yi said this on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing. The digital health certificate will, for example, allow states to verify travelers’ COVID test results or vaccinations taken, thus “restoring healthy, safe and orderly travel […]
