Car manufacturers around the world are still managing to conceal the shortage of semiconductors – some are even making a profit from it. But for how much longer? Because the current extremely high demand and low supply are causing prices to rise further. In his analysis, Christian Domke Seidel warns that the chip shortage in […]
Susanne Gildehaus has been Manager Data Analytics & Reporting for Daimler Trucks Asia since May. She previously worked at Mercedes-Benz as a data analyst, among other positions.Carina Mingle is the new communications director of the Chamber of Foreign Trade in Beijing. She succeeds Olivia Helvadijian.Fan Xinhe is the new press officer of the European Chamber […]
Over the past few years, China’s relationship with its communist brother state North Korea has been extremely tense. Beijing was annoyed by Pyongyang’s constant flaunting of nuclear-grade missiles. The Stalinist leadership in North Korea, in turn, deemed its big brother too consumerist and capitalist.In the wake of the reigniting conflict between North and South Korea […]
Botanical gardens do not have a long tradition in China. In fact, the first one only opened its doors in Beijing in April. Since last week, China’s second botanical garden has been open in Guangzhou. And the operators there are particularly proud of the giant water lily named after Queen Victoria. With a diameter of […]
Global supply chains remain under massive pressure. However, there is now positive news from China, the largest exporter of consumer goods and intermediate products: Despite ever-looming Covid lockdowns, exports from the second-largest economy surprisingly increased in June. They rose by 17.9 percent year-on-year, the Beijing Customs Administration announced on Wednesday. This marks the strongest increase […]
Hong Kong’s new health chief Lo Chung-mau believes it is possible that quarantine-free entry into the Chinese special administrative region could be granted in time for the Global Banking Summit in November. This was reported by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. Hong Kong is not required to follow the People’s Republic’s strict COVID-19 […]
When two particularly successful companies join forces in their field, the world should take a very close look. Specifically, it’s Volvo parent company and Mercedes major shareholder Geely and tech company Baidu. Their jointly founded start-up Jidu recently presented the Robo-1 concept car in Beijing. At first glance, the vehicle with butterfly doors and a […]
Martin Tschendel has been Product Controller for VW subsidiary Mobility Asia in Beijing since June. Tschendel was previously also Risk Manager at Mobility Asia.Florian Lampmann has taken on the role of Director base engine and battery at Daimler China. The engineering graduate, who was educated in Nuremberg and Berlin, has been working for the German […]
It was a noble gesture that China’s President Xi Jinping so quickly and openly condoled with Japan after the fatal assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. After all, Abe’s backward-looking policy sought to close the book on Japan’s responsibility for crimes committed during World War II. With this, he rightly outraged many Chinese. […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on his counterpart Wang Yi to distance himself from Russia at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia. “This really is a moment where we all have to stand up,” Blinken said after a five-hour meeting with Wang.“Despite the complexities of our relationship,” the talks with […]