If authorities in Beijing have their way, China’s schoolchildren will soon be able to enjoy much more free time. Until now, the situation looked like this: An already exhausting school week is followed by additional private courses on Saturday and Sunday, for which parents usually pay a substantial amount of money. This “private tutoring” was […]
China currently has the strictest Covid quarantine rules in the world. Business travelers cannot expect for current regulations to loosen for the time being due to the growing Delta variant. While the rest of the world is opening up again, the People’s Republic is sealing itself off even more.For example, China’s top virologist, Zhong Nanshan, […]
On 30 June 2020, the National People’s Congress in Beijing promulgated the so-called National Security Law for Hong Kong. Many observers interpreted this unilateral act as a fundamental departure from the “one country, two systems” principle promised for Hong Kong under the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984.With regards to the economy, laws such as […]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel bans, many expatriates who had returned to their home countries have been restricted from re-entering China. Therefore, renewing the Chinese work permits has become a complicated matter for those stranded.Although the Chinese government has issued a temporary policy allowing foreigners to renew their work permits remotely, the […]
What activities do you hate to be disturbed in? Maybe while “eat-ing” (吃饭ing – chīfàn-ing), “read-ing” (看书ing – kànshū-ing) or maybe while “rest-ing” (休息ing – xiūxi-ing)? When China’s “Generation Online” immerses itself completely in the moment, language and grammar boundaries become irrelevant. Chinese also has its own progressive form (吃饭 chīfàn = “to eat”, 正在吃饭 […]
As the Communist Party celebrated its 100th birthday in Beijing on July 1, guests included some of the country’s most influential entrepreneurs. Of particular note was Xu Jiayin, the head of Chinese real estate developer Evergrande, who shortly after published photos of himself at the celebration. Did the entrepreneur try to prove with his appearance […]
Monika Hohlmeier has a special memory of a German-Chinese conversation: in 1985, her father, then Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauß, met the then leader of the Chinese Communist Party, Deng Xiaoping. Officially, half an hour was planned for the conversation. “But the two of them had such a good time that the entire protocol […]
US politicians from both congressional parties are worried that China is overtaking America as the global leader in science and technology. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the normally gridlocked Senate passed a bill in early June to spend close to $250 billion in the next decade to promote cutting-edge research. But lawmakers may be […]
US politicians from both congressional parties are worried that China is overtaking America as the global leader in science and technology. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the normally gridlocked Senate passed a bill in early June to spend close to $250 billion in the next decade to promote cutting-edge research. But lawmakers may be […]
For weeks now, Berlin’s capital city journalists and political rivals have been busy trying to prove that the Green Party’s candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, has committed all kinds of offenses. An exercise that is more likely to be followed with a weary smile elsewhere in Europe. The public is familiar with very different kinds […]
