Hong Kong is planning extensive urbanization to the north of its New Territories. In the coming decades, the city on the Pearl River at the northern edge of its administrative territory plans to build more than half a million new homes. The area bordering the southern Chinese tech metropolis of Shenzhen is expected to house […]
Travel during Golden Week is down by a third compared to pre-Covid times. According to the Ministry of Transport, the number of trips on China’s roads, rails and other transport routes measured on Tuesday was 33.8 percent below 2019 levels, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, the situation was similar for the first five days […]
Jan Timm is appointed MRP Expert at Daimler Greater China in Zhenjiang since the beginning of the month and is jointly responsible for material requirements planning. Timm previously held various positions at Mercedes Benz AG.
Be it the Indo-Pacific strategy of the European Union or the diplomatic dispute between Lithuania and Beijing, Taiwan has been making the headlines recently and as an item on the agenda in Brussels in recent months. This month, the European Parliament wants to raise the pressure on the EU Commission to take actual measures: For […]
Political and trade relations between China and the EU have run into difficult waters since the start of the Corona pandemic: Travel restrictions make exchange more difficult, while at the same time the competitive and innovative pressure from Chinese competitors is growing. Jens Hildebrandt, head of the AHK in Beijing, describes the challenges facing German […]
Whether in the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy or through the diplomatic dispute between Lithuania and Beijing: Taiwan has increasingly appeared in the headlines and as an item on the agenda in Brussels in recent months. This month, the European Parliament wants to increase the pressure on the EU Commission to take concrete steps: For the first […]
US Trade Representative Katherine Tai will announce on Monday that China is not complying with the so-called Phase 1 trade agreement, according to a media report. According to the agreement, the People’s Republic was supposed to have purchased additional US goods worth more than 200 billion US dollars over a period of two years, as the […]
To mark China’s National Day, China’s military has sent a record number of aircraft into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) two days in a row. Thirty-nine military aircraft flew into Taiwan’s airspace, 20 on Saturday near the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands) and another 19 on Sunday night, the defense ministry in Taipei said on […]
Michael Laha becomes a Fellow at Merics. At the China think tank, he will conduct research on innovation policy, China’s role in transatlantic relations, and China’s governance model. Previously, Laha was at the Asia Society Center, where he worked on US-China relations. At the Asia Society, he was most recently senior program officer.
The EU Chamber of Commerce in China has called for more transparency on future electricity shortages in light of ongoing power cuts, especially in the east of the country. It recommended that the authorities publish timetables and details of energy-saving measures for the coming months as soon as possible so that companies can prepare themselves. […]