Where Africa’s tallest building, the Iconic Tower, is currently built, there was nothing but the desert only three years ago. Then excavators and other heavy equipment from China’s State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) moved in and began their work. The 585-meter office building is scheduled for completion in January of next year. The Iconic Tower […]
Did Putin wrap Xi in plastic? This time, our dessert is not from China, but from Paris. There the Musée Grévin reopened after the pandemic – a wax museum.
In auditing and accounting, the world is often rendered too simply, thinks Wan-Hsin Liu. Numbers often speak a clear language: right or wrong. “But I don’t have much use for such strict black-and-white thinking,” says Liu, looking back on her studies. The 41-year-old Taiwanese studied accounting in her country of birth. When she minored in […]
Despite their increasingly bitter rivalry, the United States and China have recently been sending the right signals regarding potential cooperation on combating climate change. The joint statement issued after the mid-April meeting between John Kerry, US special presidential envoy for climate, and his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, indicates that the two governments may be trying to use collaboration […]
The Huawei store in the Wanxiang Tiandi shopping district in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has always been special. When the three-story glass temple opened in September 2019, Huawei called it its “first global flagship store.” Back then, the entire ground floor was lined with bright wooden tables where the company proudly displayed its […]
In international crisis situations, China often invokes the principle of non-interference. But in the case of the Middle East conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, which has now been reignited, Beijing opted for a different approach. Since last Monday, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 3,000 rockets at Israel. Israel’s army […]
For Peter Tichauer, the wide world was his home for a long time. His family lived abroad for many years for work reasons; Tichauer originally planned to study politics with a focus on foreign relations. “But that was a time when the relationship between China and the socialist countries was normalizing,” says the native of […]
What are the top 3 stopgap gestures for selfies, group photos, and other spontaneous snaps? Clearly: victory sign, thumbs up, and flick a heart. Wait a minute, flick a heart? Every kid in China has long known this finger gymnastics. 比心 bǐxīn – literally “gesturing/imitating a heart” – is the name given to this pose, […]
Chinese space travel has made ever more significant leaps in recent years. The Zhurong rover is due to land on Mars before the end of May, and the first module of China’s space station has also been launched into Earth’s orbit. A string of major successes for the state space agency CNSA and its main […]
COP 15, the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, was due to take place on 17 May. Now it has been postponed until October. The digital venue will be Kunming in southern China. A success to protect the remaining biodiversity would be a “Global Deal for Nature”. In other words, everyone must pull together. The same […]
