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Fabian Peltsch

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 24th, 2025

Social media: How China discusses the German election results

A wide range of opinions on the results of the elections in Germany emerged on platforms such as Weibo and WeChat on Monday. Many users welcomed the political changes in Germany, hoping that they could foster stronger cooperation with China. Others expressed skepticism, especially those who feared the new government under Merz might take a […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 24th, 2025

Cornelius Dieckmann will cover Taiwan as a correspondent for Spiegel Magazine. Dieckmann has been an editor in the magazine’s foreign department since December 2023. His journalistic focus there has been on China, the USA and Taiwan.Dora Liu will become the new CEO of Deloitte China on June 1. As the first female China Chief Executive […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 24th, 2025

Tech mecca: What Hangzhou does better than other cities

Marco Polo called Hangzhou, the former imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), the “most beautiful and magnificent city in the world.” Even today, a statue of the Italian merchant stands on the shore of West Lake, the city’s most famous attraction. Jack Ma also deserves a statue on West Lake. On its shores, […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 23rd, 2025

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Allen Zou has been Head of Business Line Smart Buildings China at Swiss mechanical engineering company ABB since January. The Tsinghua graduate worked as MCS Controller Greater China for Microsoft in the noughties. He has held various positions at ABB in Beijing since 2008, most recently as Head of Smart Buildings Division, Asia Pacific. Beatrice […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 21st, 2025

Insider: TikTok lays off content moderators

Just weeks after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced that it would discontinue fact-checking in the US, TikTok has also scaled back its content moderation, according to insiders. Several people familiar with the matter told Reuters news agency on Thursday that jobs in the trust and security department would be cut as part of a restructuring program. […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 21st, 2025

21.02.25_Editorial

How do we as a society want to interact with the autocratic People’s Republic in the future? This question will also occupy the coming German government intensively – a balancing act. After all, the China debate in Germany is polarized like few other political arenas.That is why China.Table has asked two opposing poles of this […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 21st, 2025

Zhang Hui, Vice President of NIO Europe, will be the first chairman of a new body to promote cooperation between China and the EU in the automotive industry. The China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) announced the establishment of the new working group on February 18 at the China-Portugal and China-EU Cooperation Forum […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 20th, 2025

20.02.25_Personal details

Christian Wurm is the new General Manager China at the Stiegelmeyer Group. The furniture company from Herford in East Westphalia specializes in hospital furniture and care beds. Wurm previously worked as Regional Marketing Manager for the medical technology company Dräger in Singapore. Mathieu Ngo-Di has been Business Developer in Temu’s European business since January. Ngo-Di […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 19th, 2025

A new addition to Jurassic Park: Based on a skeleton of an eight to ten-meter-long herbivore discovered in China from the early Jurassic period, which began 201 million years ago and ended 145 million years ago, Chinese scientists have concluded that the long-necked animal must have been a previously unknown dinosaur species. The remarkably well-preserved […]

Fabian Peltsch Published: February 19th, 2025

Simon Davies becomes the new President of SAP Asia Pacific with immediate effect. Davies, who is based in Singapore, will be responsible for the company’s partner and profitability strategy in Australia and New Zealand, Greater China, India, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific […]