And how are your brain circuits wired? Are all your synapses hopelessly tuned to romance? Have matters of the heart gone so to your head that most of your thoughts revolve around your loved one?Dissected with the linguistic scalpel of Mandarin, China’s online community comes to the razor-sharp conclusion in such cases: you have (and […]
When German Chancellor Olaf Scholz travels to Beijing on April 15, he will not be joined by a Federation of German Industries (BDI) representative. As Table.Briefings has learned from political and business circles, the BDI has not even applied to participate this time.The Chancellery declined to include a BDI representative on the most recent official […]
Livestreaming has permeated China’s society. According to the state-run China Netcasting Services Association (CNSA), around 15 million professional influencers go online every day on Chinese platforms such as Douyin or Kuaishou. In front of an average audience of around 700 million viewers, they share their lives, dance, work out, let people watch them eat or […]
Collapsed buildings, idle chip plants, and damaged fighter planes: On Wednesday, Taiwan experienced its worst earthquake in 25 years, with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale.As our correspondent David Demes reports from Taiwan, the citizens of the democratically governed island appear surprisingly calm overall. They have learned from the tragedy of the last […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will soon meet with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi. This was announced by the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Wednesday. Zakharova said that during the meeting, Lavrov and Wang will discuss various topics, including Ukraine and the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, during a weekly briefing.Last […]
Violent storm winds have killed at least seven people in the southern Chinese province of Jiangxi since the weekend. Some 552 people had to be evacuated and, 2,751 houses were damaged. The extreme weather conditions started on March 31 and struck nine cities, including Nanchang and Jiujiang, affecting 93,000 people in 54 counties, according to […]
Today marks the start of Qingming, the festival commemorating the dead in China. Traditionally, paper banknotes and cardboard objects are burned to help the dead in the afterlife.This year, mock-ups of ice cream, seafood, maotai, razors, and air conditioners can be found on the Taobao shopping channel. To help the environment, some manufacturers are even […]
“Digital parents” are becoming increasingly popular in China’s parallel social media world. These are older influencers who refer to their followers as “sons and daughters,” comfort them, encourage them before an exam, or give simple life advice.Always-available moms and dads apparently satisfy a need. According to a 2018 UNICEF report on China, 26 percent of […]
Over the past year, Duesseldorf has become the culinary capital of Germany, if not all of Europe, among overseas Chinese. Many of them arranged to meet in the Rhine metropolis to indulge in a real feast. The popularity was mainly due to the social media and e-commerce app Xiaohongshu 小红书, where users reported that authentic […]