On the first two days after its opening, the new branch of the Palace Museum in Hong Kong drew a lot of interest from visitors. On Sunday and Monday, long queues formed outside the new facility in West Kowloon. The Palace Museum in Beijing is lending the exhibits to the Hong Kong show. At launch, […]
Personal information of around one billion Chinese citizens has appeared on the black market for data. Unknown hackers are offering the treasure trove of data for sale at a price of ten bitcoin (about €180,000). The cryptocurrency platform Binance made the offer public via Twitter on Sunday. Since Monday, the keywords “data leak” have been […]
President Xi Jinping outlined his understanding of the principle of “one country, two systems” in a keynote speech in Hong Kong on the 25th anniversary of the handover to China (China.Table reported). In it, he portrays the division of labor between the two systems as completely intact. On one side, he said, was the socialist […]
“Dialog with China must not be allowed to break off despite everything” – this mantra is currently being repeated non-stop in foreign policy circles, and this is also reflected here in China.Table. But how successful is the EU in keeping channels to Beijing open after the sanctions battle of 2021 and the failed video summit […]
On Thursday, head of state Xi Jinping praised the “one country, two systems” concept as a success and described it as “vibrant”. The statement came during a greeting to the city’s citizens shortly after he arrived for the celebrations of the return to China on Friday (China.Table reported). It is the first time Xi has […]
Hong Kong used to be a popular destination for companies, tourists and residents of the People’s Republic who wanted to breathe some air of freedom. Today, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China, we do not have a lot of good news to report about the situation in the […]
The Chinese state is investing billions in Shenzhen-based semiconductor startup Swaysure Technology to grow a manufacturer of much-needed memory chips. According to Taiwanese websites, investments of ¥300 billion are planned via funds from the city of Shenzhen in a factory that is to be ready in early 2024. That would be a good €40 billion. […]
Wang Xiaohong will become the new Minister of Public Security, making him one of the most powerful people in the Chinese state. The appointment was confirmed on Friday by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The official Xinhua news agency reported this somewhat casually, amid a list of staffing decisions. Wang is a […]
Are we defending something that is perhaps no longer meant to be? Jan Philippi, an entrepreneur from Hamburg, believes that the era of particularly low-cost production in China is over. And yet, the 61-year-old himself happily witnessed how China awoke from its Mao slumber. At the time, he made the country the production base for […]
A test car from EV company NIO has crashed from the third floor of a company building. A digital expert from the company and a technician from a partner company were killed, the company announced. NIO is cooperating with police in the search for the cause of the accident. The crash was not caused by […]