How does it feel when your most important business partner has been laying claim to part of your land for many years? Ask Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo. His country’s biggest trading partner for the past ten years has been China. At the same time, Beijing keeps sending its coast guard ships into the waters around […]
China had to announce some difficult numbers on Tuesday. On the one hand, although economic growth in 2022 of just under three percent exceeded the even more pessimistic forecasts of many analysts, it was still well below the official target. In addition, the People’s Republic recorded fewer births than deaths in 2022 for the first […]
The year 2022 has been turbulent and has continuously confronted us as journalists and you as China professionals with surprises. 2023 begins again dramatically with a pandemic wave that has a significant impact at home and abroad.We asked the critical artist Ai Weiwei for his views on this. He sees no leadership plan behind the […]
The United States and China are vying for influence in Southeast Asia. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Philippines, where the US, as a former colonial power, has held a kind of patronage for decades, including a bilateral defense treaty. For the US, the island nation is an important partner in the region, […]
The China community is eagerly awaiting the German government’s new China strategy, of which initial details have already been leaked. Speaking with Table.Media, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock now defends her ministry’s ideas and goals. Germany has “experienced what can happen if we make ourselves massively dependent on a country that does not share our values, […]
China remained largely quiet over the weekend. Only isolated protests were reported. It is unclear whether this was due to the massive police presence, controls on communications in social networks, or simply the cold in northern China. However, the first effects of the protests are obvious: Many cities have relaxed mandatory testing and quarantine rules […]
Shortly after the start of the conference, Gaston Browne, chairman of the Aosis Group of vulnerable island states, caused the first stir. He demanded that China too should contribute to the financing of climate policy. Coming from a member of the China-dominated G77 group of 134 developing countries, that was quite a statement. Browne had […]
Can you simply post everyday stories about China on the web? Or do vloggers and other influencers have to position themselves politically? The question of how to position yourself toward the People’s Republic is not new. Foreign correspondents have been dealing with this long before the Internet existed.But the genre Fabian Peltsch looks at in […]
The 20th Party Congress in October cemented state and party leader Xi Jinping’s status as the absolute center of power. For ten years, Xi has been concentrating the control of politics in his hands behind the scenes of the party. To this end, starting in 2012, he established a network of so-called Leading Small Groups […]
The meeting between US President Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping at the G20 summit raises hopes that the two countries could resume their frozen climate dialogue. After the three-hour meeting Monday on the Indonesian island of Bali, Biden stressed that both countries need to work together on major world issues such as climate […]