According to insiders, the Chinese battery manufacturer CATL plans to raise at least five billion dollars with an IPO in Hong Kong. The company, which is already listed in Shenzhen, China, could apply for the additional listing as early as Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters news agency. The transaction would be […]
While Alice Weidel is surprisingly quiet in Germany about the fact that she lived in China, speaks Chinese and wrote her doctoral thesis on the Chinese pension system, this is precisely why she enjoys a career of her own in the People’s Republic – as an internet star and darling of the state media.There, the […]
Forest Liu has been Senior Vice President Asia Pacific at ARRI since January. Liu has been working for the Munich-based film technology manufacturer in China for over four years. In his previous role as Managing Director, he had driven the development of ARRI’s first direct business in China. He will continue to be based in […]
In China, 阿丽丝-魏德尔 (Ālìsī Wèidé’ěr) is a star. “My uncle called me the other day and excitedly asked if she would be Germany’s new chancellor,” says a Chinese IT student in Berlin, who does not want her name to be published and wants to be called Maxine Zhou here. “She perfectly fits the nationalistic and […]
Han Shenghui has been Head of Greater China at the Sefar Group, a Swiss provider of high-precision screening and filter solutions, since January. Han studied business administration in Berlin, Jinan and Singapore. He works for Sefar from Suzhou in Jiangsu province. Linda Teo has been Partner Greater China at Kienbaum since January. Teo has 18 […]
The unexpected success of AI start-up DeepSeek shook the Chinese tech world as much as the Western one. Few had the Hangzhou-based company on their radar as a disruptive player. Hopes were placed on others: Stepfun, for example, founded in April 2023 by a former Senior Vice President of Microsoft. Or Zhipu, which is rumored […]
Michal Spiller has been responsible for the markets, Austria, China and Japan at Lindt & Sprüngli since January. Spiller has been CEO Germany at the Swiss premium chocolate manufacturer since September 2022, a position he will retain in addition to his new responsibilities. Spiller will be based in Aachen. Falk Passarge has been Chief of […]
In his old age, Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) called on his disciples to learn from him: “At fifteen, I had my mind bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was an obedient organ for the reception […]
The shocks caused by the Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek in the tech and business world are still being felt. Warnings are particularly loud in the US. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demands that global AI model standards must come from the US. Dario Amodei, CEO of US AI start-up Anthropic, explains that China’s progress in the […]
China has lodged a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Chinese goods, the Geneva-based organization announced on Wednesday. On Saturday, Trump had ordered tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, demanding that these countries curb the flow of fentanyl – and in the […]