As EU Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand quite fittingly summarized yesterday: “Many problems have accumulated since the last high-level trade dialogue in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter after the first trade talks between Brussels and Beijing in just over two years. The shelved CAI investment agreement and the trade embargo against EU member Lithuania are […]
As EU Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand quite fittingly summarized yesterday: “Many problems have accumulated since the last high-level trade dialogue in 2020,” she wrote on Twitter after the first trade talks between Brussels and Beijing in just over two years. The shelved CAI investment agreement and the trade embargo against EU member Lithuania are […]
An interview of the future EU ambassador to China has generated attention over a statement on Taiwan. Speaking to the Catalan daily La Vanguardia, Jorge Toledo Albiñana said “the EU does not defend the independence of Taiwan, but the peaceful reunification“.Afterward, Toledo swung back to the old familiar line: “We believe that there should be […]
Germany’s highest diplomatic post in China was vacant for around ten months. Now there is once again a representative in Beijing: Ambassador Patricia Flor presented her accreditation papers at the Foreign Ministry on Friday. On social media, the diplomat presented herself for the first time in Mandarin and English in an introduction video. You can […]
Germany’s highest diplomatic post in China has been filled again: Ambassador Patricia Flor presented her accreditation papers in Beijing on Friday, she announced on Twitter. “In times of fundamental changes, we, Germany, the EU and China, need a clear view of what we can achieve together,” Flor said in an introduction video. In it, she […]
Germany’s highest diplomatic post in China stood vacant for around ten months. Now, there is once again a representative in Beijing: Ambassador Patricia Flor handed over her accreditation papers at the Foreign Ministry on Friday. On social media, the diplomat presented herself for the first time in Mandarin and English in an introduction video. What […]
According to numerous Chinese media reports, there are increasing indications that the first flight of the previously secret “Xian H-20” stealth bomber is imminent. The head of the flight test division of China’s state-owned aviation company Avic recently announced “a flight test for an important type of aircraft that has crucial strategic and historic significance”. […]
Seven years after construction began, a section of the Bar-Boljare highway in Montenegro has been opened. The 41-kilometer Smokovac-Matesevo section is part of the New Silk Road. The highway is extremely controversial in the small state south of Croatia: Montenegro had borrowed money from China for the construction project. NGOs are now demanding that the […]
The White House wants to require U.S. companies to notify the government before investing in certain sectors in China. There is now agreement in principle on legislation to that effect, the Washington Post reports. “The administration supports bipartisan and bicameral efforts in Congress to provide greater transparency on U.S. investments in China and other countries […]
Susanne Gildehaus has been Manager Data Analytics & Reporting for Daimler Trucks Asia since May. She previously held several positions at Mercedes-Benz including data analyst. Rui Yang has been promoted to Senior Sales Financing Manager for Western Europe at Huawei Germany. He was previously Sales Financing Manager for the same region. Is something changing in […]