Laura Bonsaver is the new Associate Director of Mentorships at the British non-governmental organization Young China Watchers. Vincent Lian has been Marketing Communications Specialist for Greater China at the Norwegian classification society DNV since November. He was previously a Marketing Consultant at La Décoration in Shanghai. Is something changing in your organization? Let us know […]
Professor Hillenbrand, you are writing about precarity in China. Can you give us a short overview of your book? The key question that I’m trying to ask in the book is: What does it mean to feel precarious in 21st-century China? Since the millennium, precarity has been a crucial keyword of our times – and its traction […]
Ahead of the EU-China Summit, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned of a growing trade imbalance with China and issued a challenge: The EU will not tolerate this significant imbalance in the long term, she said in an interview with AFP for several European news agencies on Tuesday. “We have tools to protect […]
Ahead of the EU-China Summit, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned of a growing trade imbalance with China and issued a challenge: The EU will not tolerate this significant imbalance in the long term, she said in an interview with AFP for several European news agencies on Tuesday. “We have tools to protect […]
The fact that Xinjiang is the focus of human rights violations does not seem to be an obstacle to business with the western Chinese region. The latest foreign trade figures show impressive growth in exports. But that’s not all: Beijing has big plans for Xinjiang, as Marcel Grzanna reports. The region is intended to become […]
According to Lithuania’s foreign minister, the trade dispute between China and Lithuania has been resolved. After discussions and various diplomatic processes – some of which are still ongoing at the World Trade Organization (WTO) – “most of the economic pressure measures against Lithuania have been lifted,” Gabrielius Landsbergis told the Lithuanian news agency ELTA on […]
The EU and China are in the final preparations for next week’s summit in Beijing. As the European External Action Service (EEAS) announced on Tuesday, the Deputy Secretary-General for Political Affairs at the EEAS, Enrique Mora, and China’s Vice Foreign Minister, Sun Weidong, exchanged views on several topics such as the war in Ukraine, the […]
This year, over eleven million university graduates have flooded the Chinese job market. Not all of them are finding the jobs they had hoped for and many are left unemployed, reflecting the high youth unemployment rate. However, young people in China are not just concerned about job difficulties. Many of them find the idea of […]
The Xiangshan Forum is the Chinese equivalent of the Munich Security Conference. Except that things are much more martial there. One particularly striking aspect this time was that no defense minister was present. After the official ousting of Li Shangfu, there is still no successor.But this could have been the door opener for the participating […]
African Union President Azali Assoumani has called for more partnerships between European and African industry. These could make an important contribution to the continent’s socio-economic development, Assoumani said Thursday at the closing event of the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels. The EU infrastructure initiative is to be seen as an alternative to China’s New Silk […]