The WHO experts will finish their work in Wuhan tomorrow and leave China after two weeks of searching for clues. The data collected in Wuhan could soon shed light on how the virus was first transmitted to humans.“We went to all the important places,” Peter Daszak, a British zoologist told the AP news agency over […]
When the billionaire investor Ray Dalio recently predicted that the Chinese renminbi will become a global reserve currency, the world took notice. It’s a prediction that the Chinese government has encouraged through its own efforts. The question now is whether the coming “Year of the Ox” will bring the decisive shifts needed to position the RMB to […]
The official start of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is one year from today. While the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was promoting the countdown with short videos of participating athletes during prime time yesterday in China’s state media, US President Joe Biden is reportedly preparing a US boycott of the Olympics. “Advisers to Biden […]
While Germany aims to be at the forefront of quantum research by 2030, China has recently unveiled a quantum computer that can provide the solution to a complex problem “within minutes”, according to researchers. China’s most powerful supercomputer to date, the “Taihulight” – the world’s number four fastest supercomputer – would have needed over two […]
When elephants fight, the grass suffers, says an African proverb. For some years now, observers have seen a new Cold War brewing between China and the USA, a systemic conflict, and we in Europe have to fear being trampled as grass by two fighting elephants. For years, American magazines and books have been full of […]
Eleven miners were rescued on Sunday afternoon (local time) in Qixia near Yantai in Shandong province two weeks after a mining accident. At first, one miner was found in a section closer to the surface and could be rescued, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Ten other miners were rescued from a depth of more than […]
A list containing the names of 1.9 million members of the Chinese Communist Party from the Shanghai region has been leaked. Now Switzerland notes that an employee of the consulate in Shanghai is among them, and officials ask: Is Beijing infiltrating diplomatic and consular missions in this way and skimming off sensitive information?
The international team of experts investigating the sources of the coronavirus on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in China on Thursday – without German participation, as the Robert Koch Institute RKI confirmed on request. The only German participant, the epidemiologist Fabian Leendertz, had to cancel at short notice for family reasons, the […]
Kudos to the European Commission for finalizing a new investment agreement with China. Europe’s active diplomacy also played a role in China’s recent commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 – a decision that was quickly followed by Japan’s pledge to decarbonize by 2050. Now it has yielded yet another major success.The new EU-China investment […]
The Chinese government is looking to crack down on monopolies. As reported by the South China Morning Post, a subsidiary each of e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba Group Holding as well as the Tencent Holdings and express delivery company SF Holding each fined 500,000 yuan (62,795 euros) by the antitrust authority. The companies are Alibaba Investment, e-book […]
