The Peng Shuai case has finally arrived in world politics. On day one after the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) suspended all tennis tournaments in China, the country is fuming. Support for the WTA’s tournament cancellation around the world is strong, and Beijing is likely to take note. The attempt to get rid of Peng’s accusations […]
China has ramped up diesel production since September, providing much-needed supplies on domestic and regional export markets. The state has coordinated the production expansion by state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The state-owned refineries will export about 210,000 tonnes of diesel in December, Bloomberg […]
Today’s features focus mainly on foreign and economic policy. Together with colleagues, Felix Lee had the opportunity to ask Foreign Minister-designate Annalena Baerbock about her future China policy. Baerbock announced that she does not want to “gloss over or hush up” critical issues in the exchange with China. She has long advocated a combination of […]
A farmer in Quanfan cuts slabs of sweet potato pulp into strips. Then the pieces are dried under the sun. Every winter, the residents of the village in the coastal province of Zhejiang prepare various sweet potato delicacies in this way. Tasty and healthy traditional sweet potato chips, for example, are popular in all of […]
Vishal Sharma is the new CEO Greater China of logistics company DB Schenker. Sharma joins from India, where he was CEO for the Indian subcontinent since May 2018. Previously, Sharma held various management positions in the logistics sector, including at Maersk or Damco in India. Sharma succeeds former CEO Christopher Pollard in China.
State-owned oil company China Petrochemical Corporation – Sinopec for short – is building a hydrogen production plant in the northwestern region of Xinjiang that will be powered entirely by photovoltaics. The plant in the city of Kuqa will be the world’s largest production facility for so-called “green hydrogen,” Sinopec announced Tuesday. It is expected to […]
China is pressuring foreign governments to extradite Taiwanese to the People’s Republic, according to a report by human rights organization Safeguard Defenders. Through this, Beijing wants to extradite hundreds of Taiwanese living abroad, according to the report by the Madrid-based organization, which was already published on Tuesday. Foreign Office spokesman Wang Wenbin described the study […]
Things are moving pretty fast now. Several big countries have decided to tap their strategic oil reserves because of the current power crisis. The US is about to open the oil taps: Around 50 million barrels are expected to flow out of reserves in the next few months. India, Japan, and the UK have also […]
Ping-Pong Diplomacy in action: Two US-Chinese mixed teams train for the World Table Tennis Doubles Championships in Houston, Texas. The US and China are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the so-called Ping-Pong Diplomacy, which once ushered in a thaw between the two countries, thanks to historic teamwork. Pictured in front are US’s Lily Zhang and […]
China is at risk of missing its own solar energy expansion target this year. Due to rising prices in solar supply chains, photovoltaic cells became more expensive in 2021 for the first time in eight years, Bloomberg reports. As a result, China has so far added only 29.3 gigawatts of solar capacity between January and […]