“Fair” and “critical” – this is how the newly elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) outlines his idea of a new China policy. A country of China’s size and history has a central place in the international concert of nations, Scholz explained in his first government statement in the German Bundestag. “That’s why we offer […]
Until now, German cars have sold very well on the Chinese market. But vice versa? Rather unlikely. The car brand Nio now wants to prove the opposite and is preparing to enter the entire European market, including Germany. In an interview, Nio’s vice president for Europe, Zhang Hui, explains how he plans to overcome the […]
Vanessa Chang is the new director of the Shanghai studio of BMW Group Designworks. Chang has been working for the design consultancy, which has been part of BMW since 1995, for a good ten years. In addition to BMW, Mini and Rolls-Royce, Designworks also advises clients from other industries such as Starlux Airlines, Niu Technologies […]
Christmas is just around the corner. And as in the previous pandemic year, the question arises: How do I spend the holidays with my loved ones without potentially infecting them with the coronavirus? One possible measure of protection: air purifiers. Because of the continuing pandemic, German consumer’s magazine “Stiftung Warentest,” tested air purifiers that filter […]
The geopolitical dispute between China on the one side, and the US with its allies on the other, continues to escalate. After the democracy summit in Washington (China.Table reported), the Chinese leadership has called US democracy a “weapon of mass destruction”. The US had organized the democracy summit to “draw lines of ideological prejudice, instrumentalize […]
More and more countries are joining the US in its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in the London House of Commons on Wednesday that no minister from his government would travel to China for the event. This would “effectively” mean a diplomatic boycott, he declared during […]
The top person for the China.Table today is not Olaf Scholz, butRalf Brandstätter. In the future, he will be responsible for China on the VW Board of Management. His task is to turn around business in the world’s largest car market. There, the market leader was in danger of losing its dominant position: Among other […]
To engage in a concerted refusal to have dealings with (a person, a store, an organization, etc.) usually to express disapproval – that is the definition of the term “boycott”. It goes back to the British landowner Charles Cunningham Boycott, who was known for charging usurious rates of interest to his tenants and for victimizing […]
Speaking to both houses of the U.S. Congress, the then US president promoted China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The world would no longer be the same, he promised. The world’s most populous country would open its markets. And the US, with its wheat and corn, Hollywood movies, Fords and GMs, would be […]
Officially, China’s Communist Party attributes great importance to minorities in the country. However, it is actually focusing on cultural and linguistic unification. The central government has launched a nationwide campaign to promote High Chinese, also known as Mandarin. This is ultimately directed against the many dialects spoken in the country. At least 85 percent of […]