After a Covid break of just over three years, a German government leader will once again travel to China. Social democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s (SPD) stopover in Beijing in early November is expected to be the official starting signal for a resumption of face-to-face diplomacy between the European Union and the People’s Republic – and […]
After a Covid break of just over three years, a German government leader will once again travel to China. Social democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s (SPD) stopover in Beijing in early November is expected to be the official starting signal for a resumption of face-to-face diplomacy between the European Union and the People’s Republic – and […]
Germany and China are celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations today. It also took 50 years for Germany to be represented by a female ambassador in Beijing for the first time. Patricia Flor is the first woman to hold the post, and from the very first days she has shown a somewhat different approach to […]
Just over a year ago, an unprecedented trade dispute between an EU state and China unfolded. The reason for the dispute was the opening of a “Taiwan Office” in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. Beijing subsequently imposed sanctions against Lithuania. The European Union has since filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) – but the […]
It wasn’t a particularly nice congratulation. Shortly before the market launch of NIO’s Chinese EVs in Germany, competitor Audi sued the Chinese start-up for trademark infringement. The German company claims that the ES6 and ES8 model designations are too close to its own S6 and S8 sports models.Apart from the fact that number-letter combinations are […]
The US pizza chain Pizza Hut is known in Taiwan for its unusual creations. Now, for the fall-and-Halloween month of October, the chain cooked up something spooky – because how often do you find your own food staring back at you? Tangyuan garlic chicken is the flavor of this special pizza. The Tangyuan rice balls […]
Just over a year ago, an unprecedented trade dispute between an EU state and China unfolded. The reason for the dispute was the opening of a “Taiwan Office” in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. Beijing subsequently imposed sanctions against Lithuania. The European Union has since filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) – but the […]
Trips to Taiwan by members of parliament are currently gaining in importance. On the one hand, they are purely routine: there have been 102 such delegations since 2016. And yet they are something special, because they are intended to strengthen the back of the increasingly loudly threatened state. The exaggerated reaction from Beijing triggered by […]
the election results in Italy have come as a shock to many: Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing nationalist party Fratelli d’Italia has won the vote and, in all likelihood, will form the next government in Rome together with the right-wing populist Lega and the conservative Forza Italia. It is a dramatic shift to the right by a […]
China’s growing influence is currently worrying the German government. In an interview with Table.Media, Franziska Brantner, State Secretary for Economic Affairs, argues that investment guarantees should not be granted if ethical or labor standards are not met in production in a region. However, she does not want German companies to withdraw completely from the Chinese […]