Shortly before the NATO summit, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US President Joe Biden agreed on their stance toward China. The leadership in Beijing does not “share our values,” Stoltenberg said after a meeting with Biden in Washington, according to media reports. This is demonstrated in the way China is putting down democratic protests in […]
Thousands of people in Budapest demonstrated against the planned construction of the controversial offshoot of China’s Fudan University. They marched toward parliament in the Hungarian capital on Saturday, several media reported. The demonstrators criticized the financing of an institution controlled by the Chinese Communist Party with Hungarian tax money. The cost of building the campus […]
According to the health policy spokesman of the EPP group in the European Parliament, Peter Liese (CDU), the approval of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine in the EU will still take some time. He expects it to take months rather than weeks, Liese told China.Table. One reason is that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) also has […]
Do vegetarians have to be very strong now? Immediately the all-clear: no. Because this article is not really about the courageous bite into a raw, bloody steak, but rather about “gnawing” on hard-to-digest spiritual food. Because 生肉 shēngròu – literally “raw meat” – is the term used in China’s net community to describe foreign films, […]
Automaker BMW wants to make its production in China more climate-friendly. The vehicle maker wants to reduce its carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2030 compared to 2019, together with Chinese suppliers across the entire supply chain, China chief Jochen Goller announced on Thursday. Accordingly, the operation of BMW plants in China is supposed to […]
China has accused several Western clothing brands of selling goods harmful to children. A warning on the customs administration’s website lists 81 items imported by companies, including Nike, H&M and Zara. The list includes children’s clothing, shoes, toys, toothbrushes, and baby bottles that are said to have been discovered during investigations from June 2020 to […]
China has displaced Taiwan as the top supplier to US tech giant Apple for the first time. Of the top 200 Apple suppliers, 51 were based in the People’s Republic and Hong Kong last year, according to an analysis of Apple’s supplier list by the Japanese news platform Nikkei Asia. That compares with 42 suppliers […]
Senior financial executives in Hong Kong can apply for a suspension of the otherwise mandatory quarantine on entry. Hong Kong’s Financial Markets Authority informed about 500 listed banks and other financial service providers about the new exemption options last week, reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Many of the Hong Kong representative offices are […]
The G7 countries plan to announce plans for a sustainable alternative to China’s BRI at their summit next week, according to a media report. The strategy, called the Clean Green Initiative, will provide a framework to support sustainable and climate-friendly developments in developing countries, Bloomberg reported, citing two unnamed sources. The initiative will also be […]
Anyone who wants to visit the campus of the controversial offshoot of Fudan University in Budapest in the future may reach it via “Dalai Lama Street”. Or the “Free Hong Kong Street”. But you can also walk along the “Street of the Uyghur Martyrs” in the direction of the university. Because the Hungarian capital and […]