The Hong Kong authorities have put a bounty of 1 million Hong Kong dollars (about EUR 116,500) on your head. You are the latest activist outside Hong Kong to be targeted in this way. What led to this?I got involved in the pro-democracy movement at the age of 14 and took part in the protests […]
Tony Kwok has been Greater China Director at Amsterdam-based logistics and industrial real estate developer and manager CTP since January. Kwok’s role is to develop the cross-border business in Greater China within CTP Asia. He is based in Shanghai.Naseem Raufi has been Managing Director and trainer at Moin Moin Nihao, a consultancy for sustainable business […]
Yuhao Zhao has been Head of Global IDC Construction & Maintenance at China Mobile in Frankfurt since January. Zhao has been working in the Chinese telecoms provider’s European business since 2018. Prior to that, he worked for Huawei for seven years – three of them as a Data Center Solution Architect in Düsseldorf.Tony Wu took […]
Chen Feng has been appointed the new CEO of Arm China, a subsidiary of the British company Arm Holdings, which specializes in developing microprocessor architectures. The former manager of Rockchip Electronics Co. succeeds former co-CEOs Liu Renchen and Eric Chen, who are stepping down from their posts.Caiwei Chen is a new reporter at the MIT […]
As renowned AI experts, were you surprised by DeepSeek’s success?Hans Uszkoreit (HU): We knew that the company existed. But in all honesty, DeepSeek didn’t really stand out in this crowd of Chinese model developers. It was quite a surprise that they have now turned up with such a powerful model that achieves so much with […]
Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement with two Chinese companies to build a railroad line between the two countries. Among other things, the line will transport metals such as nickel from Burundi to the port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Nickel is a key resource for battery manufacturing.The 2.15 billion US dollar joint […]
NIO was regarded as the spearhead of Chinese EV expansion into Europe. Its luxurious showrooms in cities such as Hamburg and Berlin testify to this. And indeed, the glossy exhibitions have no shortage of visitors keen to catch a glimpse of their modern cars. The only problem is that nobody wants to buy them.In 2024, […]
Lars Anke has been Executive Director & Chief Representative at the Hamburg Liaison Office China, the official representation of the City of Hamburg in China, since January. Anke previously worked at HHLA Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG for more than five years. Most recently, he held the position of Chief Representative Asia. Shunan Cao has […]
China’s flagship space project SpaceSail is on course for success. 18 satellites were successfully launched into Earth orbit from the rocket launch center in Taiyuan on Thursday. A race for the best satellite network has begun up there. SpaceSail plans to install at least 10,000 satellites by 2030 in order to compete with Elon Musk’s […]
The often somewhat forced nature of Russian-Chinese relations can now also be seen in the Moscow metro. On Chinese New Year, a train with lanterns and flags wound its way through the tunnels of Line 3 – a friendship that literally runs deep.