currently falling by the wayside are the hopes of many Western investors that the time of regulatory crackdowns might be over after the pandemic in China. Under the cloak of his anti-corruption campaign, however, Xi Jinping continues to tighten the reins: After the tech sector, the world of banking has now come into the sights […]
Pierre Haski does not have anything nice to say about Emmanuel Macron’s trip to China last month. The former China correspondent should know: As one of the few French journalists on the president’s plane, he witnessed Macron’s comments on Taiwan, which not only embarrassed the EU but also the USA and the Taiwanese. In an […]
In the wellness-loving West and elsewhere, Buddhism is often associated with harmony and silence. But a group of musicians from Taiwan is shattering this image. Dharma from Taipei combines death metal, perhaps the most brutal form of rock music, with mantras and temple aesthetics. At their gigs, a real Buddhist nun takes center stage. The […]
The news came out of the blue on Wednesday evening, Beijing local time: China’s President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the President of Ukraine, as state media reported. As Zelenskiy shared on Twitter shortly after, the conversation was “long and meaningful.” The phone call had been expected, especially by the Ukrainian […]
The news came out of the blue on Wednesday evening, Beijing local time: China’s President Xi Jinping spoke on the phone with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, as state media reported. As Zelenskiy shared on Twitter shortly after, the conversation was “long and meaningful.” The phone call had been expected, especially by the Ukrainian […]
Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, has advocated patrols by European warships in the Taiwan Strait. In an op-ed for the French Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche, Borrell wrote that Europe must be very present on the issue of Taiwan, which “concerns us economically, commercially and technologically”.While the EU clearly […]
EU sees Beijing as a rival rather than a partner: Europe will not disengage from China. But the EU wants to become less dependent on the communist dictatorship, which sees itself on the way to becoming the world’s number one power. More.China’s attack on VW, BMW and Mercedes: At the Shanghai auto show, Chinese manufacturers […]
Today, no one calls the indigenous people of Taiwan “wild” or “mountain people” anymore, as they were once derogatorily referred to. On the contrary, never in the island’s recent history have the descendants of the indigenous people been as visible and respected as they are now. In sports and pop music, for example, the indigenous […]
Whether a foreign dignitary is in Beijing’s good graces is often shown by the way the official media present his welcome by the people. In early April, French President Macron was allowed to high-five the hands of excited university students in front of the cameras like a top athlete. Brazil’s President Lula da Silva was […]
In March 60 years ago, Mao Zedong canonized a young Chinese man in the state newspaper People’s Daily. The people, Mao said, must henceforth learn from “Comrade Lei Feng,” who, as a young tractor driver and soldier in the People’s Liberation Army, had been killed by a telephone pole less than a year earlier. Lei […]