Dessert 20.04.2021
China’s former premier Wen Jiabao has offered gentle criticism of Xi Jinping in an essay – ostensibly a tribute to his late mother. His text was shared hundreds of thousands of times in China and promptly censored.
China’s former premier Wen Jiabao has offered gentle criticism of Xi Jinping in an essay – ostensibly a tribute to his late mother. His text was shared hundreds of thousands of times in China and promptly censored.
China is one of the largest green finance markets in the world by its own standards. In 2019, before the numbers were skewed by COVID-19, companies and financial institutions took in the equivalent of $46.6 billion in green bonds. Then, in the first quarter of 2021, it was a record $13.2 billion that Chinese banks, […]
Shenzhen, a metropolis of 12 million people, is considering a bill to expand free schooling from nine to 12 years starting in 2025, as the South China Morning Post reports. The high-tech hub would thus be one of the first cities in China to also offer an additional year of middle school free of charge, […]
Today, Johnny Erling introduces to you a hero that political Beijing would prefer to forget. Jiang Yanyong exposed the lung disease Sars before it could become a pandemic. After his criticism of the Tiananmen massacre, the brutality of which he witnessed first-hand in his clinic, the soon-to-be 90-year-old has been under house arrest for two […]
On Tuesday, Beijing warned 34 internet platform companies against continuing to engage in prohibited practices that restrict competition. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) met with the companies, including Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, and ordered them to conduct internal inspections within a month. Practices such as excluding merchants who also offer their goods on […]
The FDP wants to deepen economic and civil society relations with China. At the same time, the People’s Republic “exposes itself to accusations of genocide through the internment and forced sterilization of members of ethnic minorities”, writes the FDP in its draft program for the Bundestag elections in September 2021, which was presented yesterday. The […]
The EU will provisionally impose anti-dumping duties on aluminum flat-rolled products from China. They will apply from Tuesday and amount to between 19.3 and 46.7 percent. The reason for the levies is a preliminary investigation by the EU, according to which Chinese producers are alleged to have sold aluminum products such as sheet, plate and […]
At first glance, the friendship between China and Russia is boundless. In 2017 and 2018, Putin and Xi awarded each other their respective countries’ highest honors. Apart from awarding medals, the countries cooperate in payment transactions, commodity deals and have joint space plans. However, as Michael Radunski reports: When it comes to the military, the […]