China expanded its economic cooperation last year, particularly with Russia and Saudi Arabia. This is the finding of the annual evaluation of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) data by the economic development agency Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI). The report’s results are available to China.Table. “Energy projects continue to set the direction,” says study author […]
China’s powerful foreign policy emissary, Wang Yi, was supposed to meet Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during his flying visit to Moscow. But then Vladimir Putin received him in person at the Kremlin. The Chinese leadership may not have expected this meeting either. For Putin, the meeting was a clever move: Shortly before the anniversary […]
On Tuesday, the global public paid particular attention to US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Xi Jinping’s keynote speech, on the other hand, attracted less attention from the world public but all the more from us at China.Table. Xi spoke rather unwieldily in the old CP manner, but even if his rhetoric […]
When looking at the picture of our first Feature, the first thing that comes to mind is animal welfare. Why is our closest conspecific suffering behind bars? In fact, from a medical point of view, experimental monkeys are needed for the approval of some important drugs – and many of these experimental animals came from […]
Although he was not there from the beginning – the first contact between Wolfsburg and the People’s Republic came about back in 1978. When Carl H. Hahn took the helm of the Volkswagen Group in 1982, he made business in China a top priority and played a key role in driving the company’s entry into […]
Mr. Sandschneider, never before have so many German politicians visited Taiwan as in recent months. Most recently, a high-ranking delegation from the FDP. Is this a good sign for Taiwan?No, on the contrary. I think this is an irresponsible policy toward Taiwan.You need to explain that.These visits are of no use to Taiwan, except that […]
The Taiwan conflict has arrived on Berlin’s political scene. Not long ago, there was a chance that MPs would confuse Taiwan with Thailand. Today, one visit to Taiwan by German politicians follows the next. The preservation of Taiwan as a democratic state is at the top of the foreign policy agenda. Politicians apparently hope to […]
the clamor for the introduction of a German supply chain law was great. Between 2019 and 2021, the then CSU Development Minister Gerd Müller got it off the ground. Now it has been in force since January 1. And: most German companies seem to be prepared . We take a closer look at the first […]
So far, the anger about the new Supply Chain Act has been limited and only one person in the German public is upset about the law: Wu Ken, the Chinese ambassador. China will not interfere in Germany’s legislation, he said in an interview with Handelsblatt. “But politicizing economic and trade issues distorts the principles of […]
The clamor for the introduction of a German Supply Chain Act was great. Between 2019 and 2021, the then CSU Development Minister Gerd Mueller got it off the ground. It has been in force since Jan. 1 and most German companies seem to be prepared. We take a closer look at the first effects of […]