In a speech before the start of the BRICS economic summit, China’s state and party leader Xi Jinping warned against an expansion of international military alliances. The Ukraine crisis was a “wake-up call,” he said, according to Chinese state media, but directed his criticism not at Russia’s war of aggression but at the United States […]
According to the old rule, a change of power would follow at the National Party Congress of the CP at the end of the year. This is what the great reformer Deng Xiaoping once dictated: To avoid a second Mao dictatorship, the baton was supposed to be passed on at least every ten years. And […]
the delicate presence in Urumqi has long been considered by human rights experts to be VW’s greatest political weakness. Now the VW plant in Xinjiang is increasingly caught in the crossfire of criticism. While in 2012 Angela Merkel was still smiling when the contracts for the controversial plant were signed, today governments are taking a […]
Stefan Mecha will be the new CEO of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand in China and Head of Group Sales at Volkswagen Group China. Marcus Hafkemeyer, who was previously strategy advisor to Huawei Automotive, will become head of technology at Volkswagen Group China on August 1.Ji Xu has been Manager R&D of BMW China since […]
The credit insurer Allianz Trade has investigated in which countries the risks of social unrest due to rising food prices are particularly high. Eleven countries that are net importers of food or rely on imports of foodstuffs that have become scarce, such as grain, are particularly at risk, the credit insurer writes in a study. […]
Business in the People’s Republic has carried Volkswagen to ever new records in recent years. But the market is facing a major upheaval. When it comes to electromobility and digitalization, the software strategy will play a decisive role in determining whether VW and other German automakers will remain ahead in China in the future. Wolfsburg […]
In May,Lennard Schlüter moved from the Bertrandt Group to Edag, a Swiss engineering service provider specializing in product solutions for the automotive industry. The development engineer will be responsible for project management in the China Infotainment division at Edag.
Violence against women is also omnipresent in China, but often strongly tabooed. That now seems to be changing. A brutal attack on a group of women in a restaurant in the city of Tangshan, northeast of Beijing, has caused shock and outrage throughout the country.Video footage of the incident shows a man in the restaurant […]
Famines caused by higher prices, heat waves in Italy and India, Russia’s attack on Ukraine – as if we didn’t have enough crises already, a new, very big concern has been added to the list: the escalating tensions between China and the USA.The security conference in Singapore over the weekend, which is of great importance […]
The Corona pandemic has hit the airline industry hard around the world, but nowhere as hard as the airlines in China. Countless connections have had to be canceled due to the lockdowns. Photos of “aircraft graveyards,” where hundreds of aircraft are stored, made the rounds on social media. While domestic traffic in China has been […]