The Big Air Shougang Park is currently causing heated debate on social media channels like Twitter. The 64-meter-high and 164-meter-long ski jump was built for the Winter Olympics in the middle of a decommissioned steel mill in Beijing’s western Shijingshan district. Critics say that dirty cooling towers instead of snow-covered mountains are typically Chinese. In […]
Matthew Jung is taking over the position of General Manager for China at Jack Wolfskin. The 48-year-old US citizen has held executive positions in the Asia-Pacific region for 25 years, including for brands such as Converse and Nike. Jung succeeds Karen Chang, who will leave Jack Wolfskin in March 2022.Christoph Schmidt has been Vice President […]
Since the mid-1990s, the Chinese government has been deliberately manipulating public opinion in the US and Europe with paid comments in online forums. Now, Beijing is paying foreign Internet users to improve the tattered image of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The Chinese consulate in New York has hired a US PR agency to buy young […]
The takeover of the German semiconductor specialist Siltronic by the Taiwanese Globalwafers Group has fallen through. Globalwafers had obtained all the necessary approvals, including that of the Chinese competition authority. Only the approval of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection had failed to materialize, preventing Siltronic’s acquisition. The deadline for submission passed […]
“The Winter Games are a huge publicity event for China,” says Hans-Martin Renn. The German architect helped design a ski jump in the host city of Zhangjiakou – a daring undertaking at times, as he told Marcel Grzanna in today’s interview. Before the planning conferences could even begin, not only phones had to be turned […]
The tiger year has also reached the underwater: Here, female artists perform a mermaid dance at the aquarium in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province, to celebrate the Lunar New Year.
Wherever Omicron spreads, severe consequences for global supply chains follow. This is what Wan-Hsin Liu from IfW Kiel explains in today’s interview with Finn Mayer-Kuckuk. The situation will become especially dire if the highly contagious virus variant were to actually gain a foothold in China. Almost two-thirds of the world’s intermediates now come from the […]
According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, German exports to China fell by 7.9 percent year-on-year in December to €8.5 billion. The office cited China’s zero-covid strategy as the major cause. This repeatedly led to temporary factory and port closures. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been calling on the People’s Republic to […]
Stéphane Leroy is taking over sales for China and the Asia Pacific at Bombardier. Leroy has been with the Canadian aircraft manufacturer for 20 years. He has already spent eight years in Asia. Leroy will retain his position as Vice President, Sales, Specialized Aircraft. Andy Jones is to become President for the Asia-Pacific market region […]