The cautionary words of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sounded hollow. Yesterday evening, Steinmeier warned that Germany’s economy was too dependent, especially on China. Yet the next morning, against all opposition from his coalition partners, his party comrade, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, pushed through the stake of the Chinese state-owned company Cosco in one of Hamburg’s port […]
the VW Group plans to invest billions in a joint venture with Beijing-based AI specialist Horizon Robotics. By buying into existing digital knowledge, the company wants to avoid a disaster for its software division. That’s because it’s short of skilled workers. Finn Mayer-Kuckuk and Matthias Wulff look at what the new VW partner is all […]
Ms. Schavan, is there really any reason to celebrate 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, given the current strained ties between China and Germany?The 50 years have borne much fruit. That is why there are good reasons to look with empathy at our relationship with China. I believe that the attitude once expressed […]
First of all, we wish all readers in China a wonderful Golden Week and a few peaceful days.However, due to the zero covid policy, the Chinese were once again called upon not to travel during the vacation period this year. The pandemic still determines the everyday life of many people and companies. Bettina Schön-Behanzin, the […]
Porsche is celebrating its IPO today. It is the biggest since Telekom 25 years ago. In China, the brand is perceived very differently than in Germany: There, Porsches are seen less as sports cars and much more as luxury cars, as Christian Domke Seidel reports. The cars are bought much more often by women and […]
Unity at the United Nations is a rare thing. And even if the Western allies have tirelessly declared for months that Russia was largely isolated in its war of aggression against Ukraine, in the end, this was little more than wishful thinking (China.Table reported). Brazil, India, the states of the Middle East, but also many […]
There has been no shortage of critical words in the annual position paper of the European Chamber of Commerce in Beijing in recent years. But the paper has never sounded as negative as it did now: “Ideology trumps the economy,” is the central statement, alluding to China’s adherence to zero-Covid, which no longer has any […]
when an international chip giant invests in Europe, it is highly welcome news. It reduces dependencies on other parts of the world, shortens delivery and communication routes to industrial customers and creates valuable jobs. After Intel has already been persuaded to build plants in Magdeburg, among other places, all eyes are now on the Taiwanese […]
In view of an increasingly belligerent China, Germany is debating a stronger decoupling from the People’s Republic. Experts are divided on how painful and, above all, how expensive such a decoupling would be for the German economy. But this question may no longer be relevant. Because the isolation process has long been in full swing. […]