Wednesday was not a good Olympic day for the host. There were no new medals, not even in the top discipline short track. For Germany, on the other hand, it was a day with plenty of precious metal: one gold in Nordic combined and gold and silver in doubles luge. This means that Germany leads […]
Monday and Tuesday have proven to be very successful for China: The athletes of the host won four medals, two gold, and two silver. In the medal table, China is now on rank three together with Germany (three times gold, two times silver). Freestyle star Eileen Gu won the much anticipated first gold on Tuesday. […]
The first Olympic weekend is over, the first medals have been awarded. And China has already won one gold medal – in its core category, short track.For the first time, a mixed relay in short track is an Olympic discipline in Beijing. And the race of two women and two men over a total of […]
A video sparked the debate. It shows Eileen Gu opening a large cardboard box in her room, pulling out her uniforms for the Chinese ski freestyle team: jackets, hoodies, gloves, caps. Together with China’s freestyle coach Jaime Melton, she celebrates the fitting like on a catwalk – and posts it on Instagram and Douyin, the […]
Shortly before the China-Russia summit in Beijing, Moscow has secured China’s support in the Ukraine crisis, according to Kremlin sources. “China supports Russia’s demands for security guarantees,” Putin’s diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov said in Moscow on Wednesday. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping planned to lay out their “common view” on international security policy in […]
The Olympic Torch is on its way through the sports venues of the Beijing Games. On Wednesday morning, in sunny and cold temperatures, Vice Premier Han Zheng handed over the torch in the Beijing Olympic Park to a true pioneer of Chinese winter sports: Luo Zhihuan, now 80 years old, was a speed skater in […]
The US and Europe have spoken with several Asian countries about possible gas supplies. This was reported to Bloomberg by unnamed sources. The aim is to secure gas supplies to Europe in the event of an escalating Ukraine conflict or cut gas supplies to the EU. Europe receives about 40 percent of its natural gas […]
Smokestacks and solar farms, coal-fired power and wind power: In China’s power sector, too, the past and the future are wrestling with each other. The world is worried about a huge pipeline of planned coal-fired power plants in the country. And at the same time, China is building wind and solar power plants like no […]
A few years ago, Chinese athletes suddenly appeared in Norway. Until then, they had trained in other disciplines ranging from trampoline, long-distance running, or kayaking. But now they were learning completely new things: ski jumping, cross-country skiing, or biathlon in the snow. A 2018 video showed giggling teens descending from a children’s ski jump for […]
Did Xi or did he not? Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that the Chinese leader had asked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at least not to invade Ukraine during the Winter Olympics. China’s foreign office spokesman Zhao Lijian immediately rejected the report on Monday as an attempt to divide Beijing and Moscow. An invasion that […]