In January 2025, a Russian betting agency announced a lottery for its customers with a fantastic top prize: a Rolls-Royce Cullinan. Such a car could cost up to one million US dollars – and it might not even make it to Russia. In March 2022, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops, the […]
Poland and Slovakia want to cooperate more closely on defense issues. A declaration of intent to this effect was recently signed by Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and his Slovakian counterpart Robert Kaliňák.According to the Slovakian Ministry of Defense, the cooperation will focus on four core areas: Poland’s Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz emphasized that Poland would […]
European manufacturers of electrolysis plants for the production of green hydrogen suffer from huge overcapacities. This is the conclusion of a study by the consulting firm PwC Strategy&, which Table.Briefings has obtained in advance. Meanwhile, Chinese competitors are entering the European markets with low prices.By the end of 2024, European manufacturers have built up sufficient […]
When Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 20 prohibiting the acquisition of US citizenship for children born in the US to illegal immigrants or people with temporary visas, he sent many Chinese families into a state of shock. “I arrived in the US a few weeks ago and the due date is February […]
On January 14, a tragic event in Shanghai’s Minhang district caused an uproar: Three family members jumped from a high-rise building to their deaths, one by one. The mother reportedly had forced her child to study every day. That day, the child had not achieved 100 points in a school exam (the highest score in […]
Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the BRICS countries. “Go find another sucker,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, threatening the group’s nine members with 100 percent tariffs should they attempt to challenge the dollar’s global dominance.Trump’s warning came on the […]
More than six weeks after the general election in Ireland, a solution has been found for the formation of a government. The ruling center-right parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, led by Prime Minister Simon Harris, agreed on a coalition program with a group of independent members of parliament, which will be submitted to the […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk enjoys a high reputation among China’s elite. In the past few years, he has done quite a lot, in addition to his gigantic Tesla factory in Shanghai, to make the Chinese government happy. His comments on the status of Taiwan as an “integral part” of the People’s Republic of China and […]
taz: Price shock through emissions trading. The European Emissions Trading System (ETS) is at the heart of European climate policy. The EU is striving for climate neutrality by making greenhouse gas emissions more expensive so that coal, oil and gas become less attractive. From January 2027, heating in Germany will become considerably more expensive. Without […]
China has impressively demonstrated that it is still the world’s workbench. On Monday, the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing presented figures that consistently exceeded economists’ expectations: Chinese exports rose by 5.9 percent in 2024, while traditionally weak imports also grew by 1.1 percent.If foreign trade is understood as a zero-sum game, then the People’s […]
