China and Russia announced a cooperation to bring stability to the region after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. During a video conference, China’s President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced that they would exchange intelligence information and hold regular talks on Afghanistan in the future. The talks took place as part […]
A 33-year-old Chinese woman has sued a hospital in Beijing for refusing to freeze her ova. The hospital cited national laws that only allow the freezing of egg cells for married couples as the reason, Bloomberg reported. Teresa Xu then sued Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital at Capital Medical University. The trial on the case […]
This is probably not what Brussels had in mind. Shortly before the presentation of the European Union’s long-announced Indo-Pacific strategy, Australia, the US and Great Britain surprised the Europeans with their own security pact, which also applies to the Pacific region. Australia’s participation is particularly hurtful. After all, the oceanic continent was supposed to be […]
The EU Commission has closed a loophole to circumvent anti-dumping duties on aluminum household foil from China – elsewhere, however, the Brussels authority wants to suspend definitive import duties on aluminum products from the People’s Republic for the time being. The EU Commission’s Directorates-General for Trade announced that the punitive duties on aluminum foil for […]
The EU Commission has closed a loophole to circumvent anti-dumping duties on aluminum foil from China. The punitive tariffs on aluminum foil for household use have been extended to imports from Thailand, the EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Trade announced. Investigations had shown that Chinese producers of the aluminum foil had shipped their products to Thailand, […]
This is probably not what Brussels had in mind. Shortly before the presentation of the European Union’s long-announced Indo-Pacific strategy, Australia, the US and the UK are surprising the Europeans with their own security pact that also applies to the Pacific region. Australia’s participation is particularly painful. After all, the oceanic continent was supposed to […]
The authorities’ intervention in the gambling market of Macau has led to a plunge in stock prices of casino operators. They lost up to a third of their value on Wednesday, Reuters reported. According to the Financial Times, the loss amounted to 18.4 billion USD. Shares in Sands China plunged 32.5 percent, Wynn Macau dropped […]
Dancing with the fluffy “conspecifics”: The panda robot Youyou shows off its agility alongside larger-than-life plush bears. Youyou was developed by the Hangzhou-based company Youbixuan and was presented at the World Robot Conference in Beijing.
The frigate “Bayern” will not visit the port of Shanghai due to opposition from Beijing. “China has decided after some deliberation that it does not want the German frigate to visit the port, and we have taken note of that,” a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in Berlin on Wednesday, according to German news agency dpa. […]