On shaky legs, a tiger cub born in April made its first public appearance at the South China Tiger Breeding Station in Suzhou on Monday. In the wild, there has been no trace of the South China tiger “Panthera tigris amoyensis” for more than 20 years.
Foreign companies tend to react very differently to public criticism in China. There are subtle differences for which controversies they apologize for and for which they do not, according to a study by the Stockholm-based National China Centre. The independent think tank found that 80 percent of companies publicly apologize more often for statements about […]
The archaeological discoveries of Sanxingdui resemble something out of a surreal horror movie: Gigantic, boxy heads. Creatures with stalk eyes. Hybrid beings with snake bodies and bird legs. On top of that, a four-meter-tall bronze tree, with mysterious birds perched on its branches. These dramatically illuminated artifacts can be admired at the Sanxingdui Museum in […]
Tobias Czapka has moved to the position of Manager for System Engineering BEV-Powertrain China at VW. The Doctor of Engineering was Lead Technical Project Manager Gasoline Engines at VW until June. Here, Czapka was already responsible for China and the Eastern Regions. Chunwei Yin has been Facility Manager Data Center for the German subsidiary of […]
In China, where subcultures are critically eyed, censored, and sometimes sanctioned, heavy metal – Zhòngjīnshǔ 重金属 in Chinese – has established itself as a solid niche since the early 1990s. The scene here is rarely political or socially critical. Instead, local color is an important selling point. Many bands are proud to address their history. […]
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier warns that Germany is becoming too dependent on China. “In some strategically important fields, our dependence on Chinese raw materials is significantly greater than our dependence on Russian gas,” Steinmeier said in Hamburg at the ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Überseeclub, which promotes democracy and international understanding. Germany is […]
Bill Nelson, the chief of the American space agency NASA, considers China’s space program to be militarily motivated. In an interview with the German tabloid Bild on Saturday, the 79-year-old said. “We have to be very concerned about China landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now, and you stay out,” the former astronaut […]
The Chinese city of Wuhan reports new Covid cases: Two port workers were identified with asymptomatic infections, Bloomberg reports. These are the first Covid cases in Wuhan in a month. The Coronavirus had been detected for the first time in the metropolis with a population of 11 million at the end of 2019.China’s President Xi […]
With a half-sentence, Beijing’s top party secretary Cai Qi had sparked a minor mass panic in China. In an article in the state newspaper Beijing Ribao, the 66-year-old declared that “in the next five years, Beijing will resolutely, unremittingly, do a good job in normalizing pandemic prevention controls”. In plain language, that would mean five […]
The G7 countries have called on China to urge Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine. Beijing should put pressure on Moscow to withdraw troops from Ukraine immediately and without conditions, the G7 reported. In the G7 Leaders’ Communiqué of the three-day summit, the G7 countries also expressed concern about the situation in the East […]