Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC is openly discussing its planned investment in Dresden for the first time. The project is making good progress, said Kevin Zhang, Senior Vice President for Business Development, in Amsterdam in front of journalists. The final decision will be made in August at a board meeting.The EU and Germany are aggressively courting […]
Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC is openly discussing its planned investment in Dresden for the first time. The project is making good progress, said Kevin Zhang 張曉強, Senior Vice President for Business Development, in Amsterdam in front of journalists. The final decision will be made in August at a board meeting.The EU and Germany are aggressively […]
The two summits are overcome, and the leaders have returned exhausted from Hiroshima and Xi’an to their countries. We were treated to first-class political drama in both cities. The performance in Xi’an was more colorful and opulent – which is also in line with the widespread notions of the appearance of power in Central Asia. […]
Morgan Chen, previously Vice Chairman of Taiwan’s public sector pension fund PSPF, will become chairman of the organization. He succeeds Chou Chih-hung, who also serves as Taiwan’s minister for civil service, following a reshuffle of the pension fund. Yu Fei is leaving his post as General Manager of Lantu Automobile Sales. According to rumors, Shao […]
If the metaphor of a summit is taken literally, one could make out two peaks that were mentally far apart at the weekend. While Xi Jinping celebrated a new, sinocentric order of Asia at the Central Asia Summit, Japan pushed through a clearly China-critical agenda against German reservations at the G7 summit.Xi had invited the […]
The current business climate survey of the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association VDMA in China reveals waning optimism in the sector. “The mood among our members in China remains restrained, as the Chinese economy is developing with both light and shade following the lifting of the Covid measures,” explains Daniel Yoo, VDMA office manager in […]
A planned detour by German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) to China and the scheduled meeting with his colleague Liu Kun will not happen. Lindner planned to depart for Beijing today, Tuesday, to travel from there to the G7 finance ministers’ meeting on Thursday. However, the Chinese side canceled the appointments in Beijing on short […]
Russia is persevering. The Western alliance has not managed to bring the aggressor to its knees by halting trade, despite its economy also being urgently dependent on spare parts and intermediate goods. Circumventing the sanctions is considered a big reason. But China, with its vast and diverse economy, sees itself as Russia’s trading partner and […]
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva should actually be a huge fan of sanctions, or so it would seem. How else is the international community supposed to exert pressure on countries that violate the rights of their citizens?But this is not the case. A line has prevailed in the Geneva body that rejects economic […]
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with the head of the federal chancellery Wolfgang Schmidt in Berlin on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom), Wang met with Schmidt to follow up on the German chancellor’s visit to Beijing last November. Another topic of discussion was cooperation in the fields of renewable energy and […]