The images from the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou resemble revolutionary or civil war scenes: faces covered in blood, torn-down barriers, clouds of tear gas and water cannons sweeping people off the streets. Both at night and during the day yesterday, turbulent scenes erupted around the Apple supplier’s largest plant, which, with its 200,000 or so […]
Thomas Derksen has become Germany’s most important cultural ambassador in the People’s Republic of China with his sympathetic videos about his life in China. The trained banker from Marienheide was allowed to accompany German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his last trip to China. He showed soccer player Lothar Matthaeus around his hometown of Shanghai as […]
Xi Jinping’s schedule at the G20 meeting in Bali was ambitious. Yesterday alone, he met with the leaders of Australia, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy for bilateral talks. As Michael Radunski writes in his article on the summit, China’s president clearly wants to return to the pre-pandemic days. By the beginning of 2020, Xi […]
“We need to rethink our trade policy,” declared Economics Minister Habeck right at the opening podium of the Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business in Singapore on Saturday. What he meant above all was: In order to be more independent from China, Germany needs new partners – especially in Asia. Malte Kreuzfeldt is on the ground […]
the sale of a stake in the Port of Hamburg to Cosco brought about a tipping point in the perception of China. Never before has the German public been so united in its view that China should be dealt with more cautiously. After all, more caution would have been appropriate in dealing with Russia as […]
The uproar over the sale of a stake in the Port of Hamburg to Cosco marks a tipping point in the perception of China. Never before was the German public so united in its view that China should be approached with more caution, analyzes Marcel Grzanna. After all, more caution would also have been called […]
The well-known American China platform “The China Project” has come under fire in the US Congress. It filed a complaint accusing the platform of engaging in propaganda in the service of the Chinese government. US Senator Marco Rubio commented on the complaint, saying that “American citizens acting as agents of a hostile foreign government should […]
Following the 20th Party Congress, not only the German business wonders: Is the China boom nearing its end with Xi Jinping’s third term? Joerg Wuttke, President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, sees Xi’s priorities as maintaining power and stability at the cost of innovation and market economy. Speaking with Frank Sieren, Wuttke […]
The discussion about the stake in a German port terminal held by the Chinese state-owned company Cosco intensifies almost by the hour. With the Ukraine war and its consequences, the affair becomes a new symbol of Germany’s disastrous dependence on authoritarian countries. Olaf Scholz, of all people, the “Zeitenwende” chancellor, still wants to seal the […]
“This is heaven on earth,” says Zhang Jinglei about her new home. The filmmaker spent ten years in China’s capital Beijing. Ten months ago, she packed her bags and moved to Caicun, a suburb of the city of Dali in the province of Yunnan, about 2,000 kilometers away. In just a few days, the 32-year-old […]