The US intelligence agency CIA considers the likelihood of a violent incursion by Chinese forces into Taiwan to be high. It is not a question of “whether” Chinese leaders might decide to “use force to control Taiwan” in a few years, but rather “how and when they will do it,” CIA chief William Burns said […]
Exactly 50 years ago, in the penultimate week of July 1972, Bonn and Beijing began to establish diplomatic relations. But not in a very straightforward way. And that was no accident. One of the people behind it was an opposition politician from the CDU and, on the Chinese side, a Xinhua journalist in Bonn. The […]
Can Karagoez has been Short Term Specialist H6 at Daimler Truck China since June. Karagoez has worked in the company’s truck division for 12 years. Vincent Teckseng Lim will be the new General Manager of China Airlines Vienna. Lim has been with China Airlines since the Vienna office opened in 2005. Since 2017, he served […]
After a break of almost two years, Brussels and Beijing have again exchanged views on trade issues in a separate dialogue format. EU Vice President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He discussed, among other things, supply bottlenecks due to the Covid pandemic, dependency on critical raw materials, and the impact […]
Michael Hagedorn has been responsible for purchasing and global sourcing in China at Theo Förch GmbH & Co. KG since June. The company from Baden-Württemberg specializes in direct sales of workshop supplies, assembly and fastening items. In China, Förch has been active as Foerch (Foshan) Trading Co., Ltd. since 2019. The headquarters are located in […]
On March 31, 2018, Zumrat Dawut is ordered to the police station in her hometown of Urumqi. At first, the young woman and mother of three thinks it’s just an identity check, as they now frequently happen in the Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang. But then everything happens very quickly: Zumrat is strapped into one of […]
One reason why the Chinese government was able to deny the human rights violations in Xinjiang for so long was that hardly any pictures from inside the forced labor camps disguised as “educational institutions” made it to the outside world. A comic book that tells the story of Zumrat Dawut aims to fill the gap. […]
Florian Lampmann has taken on a management role in the Batteries and Drives division at Daimler China. The engineering graduate, who was educated in Nuremberg and Berlin, has been working for the German automaker since 2004. He has spent six years of that time at his current workplace in Beijing. Gian-Luca Ratte has left his […]
India could overtake China as the world’s most populous country as early as next year. This is according to the World Population Prospects, an annual demographic report on the state of the world’s population, published by the UN on Monday. India and China would then each have more than 1.4 billion inhabitants. In China, population […]