If a country does basically the same with a law as it did without it – does it make a difference? Yes. This is now the case with China’s new foreign policy law. Like other important resolutions of the People’s Congress, it contains colorful expressions and promises, for example, China’s commitment to world peace. But […]
Scientific cooperation has shifted into the focus of risk minimization efforts. They will also form an important aspect of Germany’s national China strategy currently in the works. Researchers who work specifically on this topic have also attached a new urgency to the issue. The main reason is the ongoing reassessment of Chinese motives and strategies.On […]
Today’s issue focuses twice on the decoupling of the economy. While our first text reports on how Premier Li Qiang denounces the trend of Western countries to disengage from China, our second text traces just such a decoupling – albeit one that China is eagerly aiding.The irony is that hardly any Western politician is seriously […]
What does a company do when Beijing spoils its China business on flimsy grounds? It will invest all the more in China because that is where its most important customers are. This is what the US semiconductor manufacturer Micron has now done.Shortly after being banned from critical networks in China over safety concerns, Micron announced […]
Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko in Beijing on Sunday. The leadership apparently wants to get a picture of the situation in the neighboring country. Qin asked for the meeting to “exchange views on Sino-Russian relations and international and regional issues of common concern,” according to the Chinese leadership.The statement […]
The new automotive competition is on the rise: After Japan and South Korea, China, the third East Asian nation, is entering the global automotive market. Until the end of the pandemic, logistics were a bottleneck. However, the transport difficulties have since been resolved, as Christian Domke-Seidel writes. This year, China will export four million good, […]
Premier Li turned the economic forum into a promotional show for his country.The current government consultations have also been followed by a meeting of industry representatives with the two heads of government. The 11th Sino-German Forum for Economic and Technological Cooperation was held in Berlin on Tuesday. Present were the heads or high-ranking representatives of […]
The EU Commission could use its anti-dumping tools against the import of cheap EVs from China. The rapid rise of imports is becoming a problem for the EU’s industry, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton told Politico. The responsible Directorate-General for Trade, Denis Redonnet, reportedly discusses launching proceedings against suppliers that can be accused of selling […]
China is the country that added the most new nuclear weapons to its arsenal last year. This is reported by the research institute Sipri in Stockholm. Russia has twelve more warheads than last year, while the other nuclear powers have only seen single-digit fluctuations – except for China, which has significantly increased its stockpile with […]
With the Silk Road project, China entered international cooperation as a major player in 2013 – and norms and standards have been an important part of the strategy from the beginning. “China plays an active role in setting standards within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative,” says Tim Ruehlig from the Center for […]