Sui Qun, gallerist from Wuhan“I think the Chinese government has been very efficient. Now everyone has a health code, and administrations are working very quickly. Especially preventive measures have been strengthened, and follow-up is very scientific. For example, some time ago, when we found a person from Shijiazhuang infected with the coronavirus in Wuhan, the […]
What a year for Tesla and Elon Musk: In 2020, the American EV manufacturer went up by 695 percent on the stock market. Thanks to this extraordinary performance, founder Musk replaced Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world, even though Bezos is not exactly one of the losers of the Covid […]
Many Germans who regularly travel to China always have to live with one shortcoming: They don’t speak the language. According to Verena Menzel, offers at universities and adult education centers can only teach learners the basics. “Chinese is a very context-oriented language and it is a different culture,” explains the literary scholar. Practice and practical […]
It is a decision that has little to do with price – but all the more with experience and reliability. Its effect, however, is all the greater. “Anyone who builds IT infrastructure for the financial industry will rarely opt for microchips from China,” says a manager from the semiconductor industry. Since we are talking about […]
He has withdrawal symptoms, says Bjoern Etgen. Due to the Covid crisis, the lawyer has not been back in China for over a year. “You just miss a lot of things.” Yet he deals with China almost daily at work: Etgen is considered a pioneer of legal advice to German companies in China and is […]
The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) bears the stamp of Chinese negotiation skills. Beijing is thus greatly satisfied. The official reading there is “balanced, high-quality, mutually beneficial and win-win,” which has been quoted by party officials and state media like a prayer mill for days. And in Europe? Many observers doubt a win-win. It is […]
Stormy-Annika Mildner wants to repair old bridges between Europe and the US. Mildner has been the new Director of the Berlin-based Aspen Institute since January 2021. The think tank, with 17 employees, sees itself as a dialogue platform for trusting cooperation between Europe and the US. A core topic that will drive Stormy-Annika Mildner in […]
When it comes to the CDU’s attitude toward China, observers of the ruling party like to speak of the eternal yin and yang, a perpetual struggle between rejection and dissociation from the authoritarian state power in Beijing, on the one hand, and the will to cooperate with the emerging economic power, on the other. People […]
In the spring of 2020, when protective masks could hardly be bought in any pharmacy in France, rumors circulated that the delivery from China intended for the French had been bought up directly on the tarmac by another country. French politicians were outraged; France had ordered a billion masks from the People’s Republic – which […]
When the Beijing statistics office officially reports on gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the past year next Monday at 10 a.m., breaking news will go around the world just seconds later. In all likelihood, the reports will please the Chinese leadership. If what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts in its latest forecast occurs, […]
