Nikkei News Agency’s longtime China correspondent Katsuji Nakazawa spotted a striking deviation from strict protocol during the March meeting of the People’s Congress. Usually, there is only one porcelain teacup on each of the tables in front of the top officials in the presidium and the thousands of deputies seated before them in the plenum. […]
Germany is not alone in a vaccination campaign that is dragging on. Even in China, where there have been virtually no new COVID cases for almost a year except for a few local outbreaks, due to strict controls and lockdowns at the beginning of the pandemic, very different information has recently emerged about when the […]
China means to rush from victory to victory. So China’s rise does not seem far off. It has weathered the coronavirus pandemic better than the West and seamlessly picked up the old growth momentum. Last year, it signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free trade area, with neighbors in the region […]
For more than 30 years, the Goethe-Institut has enriched cultural life in Beijing and other Chinese cities. In 2015, in addition to the main building, it opened a versatile cultural venue for performance and theatre performances, exhibitions, and film evenings in Beijing’s art district 798, of which the institute’s director Dr. Clemens Treter is audibly […]
When Alibaba acquired the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post five years ago, the excitement in the Chinese special administrative region was great. The prevailing view among Hong Kong citizens and the foreign business community at the time was that Ma had taken over the long-established English-language newspaper primarily as a favor to Beijing.Alibaba […]
For Anika Laudien, how Europe deals with China’s rise as a world power is one of the central challenges of our time. “There is a lot at stake in this systemic competition,” she says, “especially for the younger generation.” The 34-year-old from Hamburg works as a project manager in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Germany and Asia […]
It took almost ten years for Liu Cixin’s first novel, The Three-Body Problem, to reach Western readers. First published serially in China in 2006, it appeared as a novel shortly afterwards. Then, in 2014, the English translation hit the market – and Liu promptly became the first Asian author to win a Hugo Award, the […]
A question of discourse: What does China’s President and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CCP) Xi Jinping mean when he talks about the rule of law? How does the Chinese leadership define multilateralism? Did you know that China’s core socialist values include democracy and freedom? What is Document No. 9, and why […]
Frank Haugwitz has been commuting through Southeast Asia for over a year – involuntarily, because he was surprised by the COVID-19 virus during a business trip in November 2019. He is currently in Singapore, before that a few months in Thailand. In fact, the 55-year-old lives and works in Beijing. But since the beginning of […]
US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke on the phone for the first time on February 11. After the conversation, it seemed that USA-China relations were now back on track. The two leaders had drawn clear lines and opted for a no-nonsense, pragmatic approach. The belligerence and bluster of Biden’s predecessor […]
