As China editors, we have noticed some particularly interesting recent publications this summer. Therefore, we have been reading avidly over the past weeks – and we don’t want to keep our recommendations from you. So we took the opportunity to present a China.Table book special.The topics of these recent books range from politics and emerging […]
On Monday, Hong Kong-traded shares in Chinese real estate group Evergrande plunged to penny valuations. It was the first day of trading for the stock since March 2022, and the sales surge shows the disastrous state of China’s real estate industry. The resumption of trading also came just days after the company filed for bankruptcy […]
Siegfried Russwurm is not just the president of the Federation of German Industries, he is also involved with companies such as the mechanical engineering company Voith, which maintains a large presence in China. Stefan Braun spoke with Russwurm about his stance regarding the new regulatory shake-up the German government could inflict on business in China.Russwurm […]
The reserve currency was the main substantive question at the BRICS summit on Wednesday and Thursday. The BRICS Bank, the development bank of the Group of Five established in Shanghai in 2015, plays a central role here. It is officially called the New Development Bank (NDB).Brazil’s ex-president Dilma Rousseff is not the bank’s president by […]
Those who own the world’s reserve currency have enormous advantages. The US, for instance, can take on unlimited debt because there is unlimited demand for dollars. This means that they can also sustain a trade deficit of any size.But the dream of the Global South to replace the dollar as the reserve currency also has […]
Germans’ image of China as a scientific nation is distorted: “We still believe that we have the technology and that the Chinese will learn from it.” In fact, China has overtaken all other countries, especially the United States, in many fields. This is what Niels Peter Thomas, head of China at Springer Nature, had to […]
Germany’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck, wants to legally limit China’s influence on the German economy. To this end, he plans to tighten and expand existing foreign investment screening in Germany. This is according to a paper from the ministry, available to Table.Media. The goal is to create a new […]
China’s real estate crisis continues to spread: Former market leader Evergrande has filed for creditor protection in the United States. This is an expected interim step in working through an insolvency plan dating back to March, while also being a rare admission of insolvency by the Chinese homebuilder. The company has not filed for bankruptcy […]
The Chinese intelligence service may be operating on German soil. That is at least the most logical explanation for what is happening to democracy activist Su Yutong. Men ring her doorbell and threaten her, and her German address is published on the internet together with explicit pictures.Other human rights activists notice that they are being […]
The White House has decreed: Capital investments by US investors in Chinese high-tech companies will no longer be possible as of next year. The founding of joint ventures is also prohibited. The following sectors are affected:The executive order officially affects “Countries of Concern,” meaning China. For instance, a US investment house like Goldman Sachs can […]