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.
Does anyone else remember fidget spinners? Those little spinning tops with ball bearings that are spun between your fingers? As of 2017, the addictive handheld toy was gyrating its way through retail and online shopping assortments worldwide. In Europe, you could get it on every street corner at the time. Some schools in Germany were […]
Online shopping with cat ears: An exhibitor sells her wares to fans via livestream at the International Cartoon and Animation Festival (CICAF) in Hangzhou. According to the organizers, the convention attracts visitors from around “50 countries and regions” every year. It was not known whether foreign cartoon fans attended the festival this year, given the […]
China’s economic champions are conquering global markets: In 2020, for the first time, the Fortune 500 list featured more Chinese than US companies, and this trend continued in 2021. Chinese state-owned enterprises stand out in particular. The discussion Series on economic relations with China at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) therefore asked: […]
Fans from outside the country will not be able to cheer on athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing: tickets for the Winter Games will only be sold to spectators from mainland China, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Wednesday. Unvaccinated athletes will have to be quarantined for 21 days before the Games, […]
A day before the start of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), the Chinese government said it offered Brussels cooperation in the technology sector. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged views with EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell on promoting cooperation in the fields of technological innovation, finance, energy and agriculture, the Chinese side […]
A dispute is brewing between China and the EU state of the Czech Republic over the potential participation of the People’s Republic in a tender for the expansion of a Czech nuclear power plant: Czech President Miloš Zeman signed a law earlier this week banning Chinese companies from participating in the construction of a new […]
A dispute is brewing between China and EU member Czech Republic over the potential participation of the People’s Republic in a tender for the expansion of a Czech nuclear power plant. Earlier this week, Czech President Miloš Zeman signed a law banning Chinese companies from bidding over the construction of a new unit of the […]
A day ahead of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC), the Chinese government said it has raised cooperation in the technology sector with Brussels. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged views with EU Foreign Affairs Commissioner Josep Borrell on promoting cooperation in the fields of technological innovation, finance, energy, and agriculture, the Chinese announced […]