The planned acquisition of a stake in one of four terminals at the Port of Hamburg by the shipping company Cosco has become a symbol of Chinese investment in Germany. It is the first acquisition of high-profile infrastructure since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: The “Zeitenwende” is gripping the port business. Demands are that Germany should […]
The 20th Party Congress is over. The Chinese leadership can finally get back to politics after months of wrestling over staffing issues and formulations. Surprises are to be expected, because the new team around Xi Jinping is now largely free of domestic political constraints. The profiles of the six members of the Politburo Standing Committee […]
Li Qiang is China’s second-in-command – the initiator of the Shanghai lockdown qualified for himself for higher office in Xi Jinping’s eyes through brutality and consistent repression of the population. That pretty much says it all about the new Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. They are the seven men who […]
The 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of China has started. Since 2018, it has been clear that it would be a landmark event. At the time, Xi Jinping arranged for the ten-year presidential term limit to be lifted. The real taboo break, the execution of the coup thus prepared from within, follows now. […]
The action of a democracy activist at the Sitong Bridge in Beijing continues to echo. On the one hand, he is only one of 1.4 billion Chinese – and there is no sign of a mass movement. Theoretically, he could be pretty alone with his opinion, with only the support of a small circle of […]
A congress of the Communist Party of China only happens every five years, and it starts this weekend. Tension is correspondingly high. At the center of attention: Xi Jinping. The CP Congress is his show. Reason enough to take a closer look at his personality. Michael Radunski describes him as a clever strategist who long […]
Are conditions in China worse today than during the Cultural Revolution? Certainly not in the overall picture. In today’s Table.Media interview, Annette Schavan talks about the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and China in 1972. Willy Brandt was the German chancellor at the time, and Mao Zedong was the ruler of China. Professors were […]
News of the approval of a Chinese mRNA vaccine in Indonesia came as something of a surprise last week. It is unclear why Indonesia is rushing ahead with approval while trials are still ongoing. Vaccines, after all, are no longer in short supply. What is clear now, however, is that AWcorna is expected to be […]
Delegation trips to Taiwan are gaining significance these days. Although they are purely routine, there have been 102 such delegations since 2016. And yet they are something special, since their purpose is to strengthen the position of increasingly threatened Taiwan. Beijing’s overreaction to the visit by US Representative Nancy Pelosi in August highlights their significance.Until […]
China’s loyalty to Russia was already on shaky ground. Instead of firm support, Beijing rather offered Putin words of encouragement. His war is intended to weaken the West as well as Russia itself, which has made itself a vassal of China. For Xi, Putin is above all a useful troublemaker.But on Saturday at the UN […]