Zoologist Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the WHO mission to investigate the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, shows his hotel room on Twitter. In another tweet, he writes it was “surprisingly easy” to spend 14 days in quarantine. A lot of work and a nice hotel made sure that the […]
Under US President Joe Biden, climate change is once again becoming a priority in US climate policy. Biden’s focus is also on Beijing. China is the world’s largest promoter of coal-fired power plants abroad. Biden already sharply criticized this during the election campaign. In his climate plan, he promises to work with other countries to […]
What is the importance of the Chinese market for Germany’s car manufacturers? A recent study by the Center Automotive Research came to the following conclusion: Of the 14.16 million cars sold worldwide last year by Volkswagen, Daimler, and the BMW Group, 38.2 percent were sold in China. In the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, car expert and […]
China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has reported a new high in the installation of new wind turbines for 2020. In total, turbines with a capacity of 71.7 gigawatts were connected to the power grid. That’s triple the installed capacity of the previous year and double the previous record year of 2015, writes China Energy Portal. […]
Chinese network equipment supplier Huawei accuses Sweden of breaching the investment agreement between Sweden and China by excluding the company from the Nordic country’s 5G network, according to a report by local media and trade portal Investment Arbitration Reporter (IAR). Sweden decided in October 2020 to exclude Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE from the rollout […]
