The Chinese paper for peace in Ukraine continued to occupy the world over the weekend. The reaction from the West was mostly criticism and skepticism: China could not be an honest peace broker because of its proximity to Russia. This view is particularly widespread in Europe’s capitals.So, is the paper useless? Not from the Chinese […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin received China’s chief diplomat Wang Yi at the Kremlin. Official pictures show both shaking hands next to Putin’s long white table. Other pictures show them sitting across from each other in conversation at a normal human distance. These are images that testify to closeness, quite different from before the Russian invasion. […]
Wang Yi is currently in Moscow and will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday. Observers are interested in one thing above everything else: Will China’s chief diplomat also meet with Vladimir Putin? And if so, can any indications about the nature of the announced peace initiative be discerned?On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping […]
Military and territorial security has always been part of China’s “core interests”. This was recently demonstrated in the skies over the Americas, where several units of what appears to be a larger fleet of spy balloons appeared. As is well known, the USA shot down one of them. For a long time, Beijing has also […]
Uncertainties about China’s emissions data remain. Due to conflicting data on the country’s CO2 emissions and coal consumption, it remains unclear whether emissions have already peaked.According to preliminary energy data from the Chinese government, carbon dioxide emissions are expected to have increased by 1.3 percent in 2022 – but analyses by the Centre for Research […]
This year, the EU Chamber of Commerce wants to look forward again. This was evident from the tone of the position paper presented by the Shanghai branch on Tuesday, the first in a series of planned local editions. Last year, the position paper of the European Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) was still dominated […]
The deal should originally have been closed by New Year’s Eve. But even after the contractual deadline expired on December 31, 2022, it is still uncertain whether China’s state-owned Cosco will invest in the Hamburg Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) or not.The Hong Kong-listed terminal division of the company, Cosco Shipping Ports Limited (CSPL), declared in […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has traveled to South America. But not only the Ukraine war accompanies him there, but the geopolitical competition with China, too. His interlocutor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former and new president of Brazil, not only pitched himself and China’s President Xi Jinping as peace brokers with Moscow. He also has […]
the reporting of state-run Chinese media on German politics mostly follows the official political agenda. But there are plenty of independent information providers on the social media platform Wechat that, for example, disseminate news or everyday stories in Chinese from Germany. Renxiu Zhao has taken a closer look at these channels and presents three of […]
Andrij Melnyk, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Germany and since November 2022 deputy foreign minister, has urged a re-evaluation of Ukraine-Chinese relations. His remarks have caused quite a stir. Formally, Kyiv and Beijing have maintained a “strategic partnership” and extensive economic cooperation since 2011. However, given China’s pro-Russia stance since Putin’s Assault on Ukraine, not much […]