A piece of wreckage from the Boeing 737 that crashed on Monday was found ten kilometers from the crash site. According to experts, this indicates that the plane may have broken apart in mid-air. The piece of debris was 1.30 meters long and ten centimeters wide, Bloomberg reports . It could have either fallen off […]
Despite the recovery of the black box on Wednesday, there have been no new details about the cause of the plane crash in Guangxi. But some of its consequences are already foreseeable: Another 737 debacle is causing the Chinese Market to lose trust in Boeing, our Beijing team analyzes. Since China is also entering the […]
The U.S. government on Wednesday rolled back a series of tariffs against products from China. Technically, it involves the reintroduction of tariff relief for 352 categories of goods that had originally been subject to tariffs but had in the meantime received an exemption that had expired. The Trump administration had imposed tariffs on a wide […]
After a mixed year due to global chip shortages and rising raw material costs, Chinese Hangzhou-based automaker Geely expects sales and profitability to remain strained in 2022. Pressure on sales and returns is not expected to ease in light of increased competition in the domestic market, the rise in material prices, and pandemic-related restrictions, Geely […]
What cannot be, is not spoken openly, either. Chinese real estate group Evergrande has been effectively bankrupt for months (China.Table reported). Yet no company representative and no Chinese official are even uttering the word “bankruptcy”, even though the criteria has been met long ago. But resulting turmoil on the financial market would simply be too […]
A plane crash is a major incident, even when war and the pandemic kill many people every day. Horror on a global scale does not overshadow regional and personal tragedies. And we have learned to rely on airplanes as a safe form of transportation. This makes the shock of seeing smoking debris on a mountainside […]
A plane crash in southern China has killed 132 people. Flight MU5735 was en route from Baoshan near the border to Vietnam in Yunnan via the provincial capital Kunming to Guangzhou. Details on the cause of the crash have not yet been released at this time.The Guangxi Autonomous Region mobilized rescue teams, but it is […]
On the night of Friday to Saturday, the Presidents of the United States and China spoke on the phone and discussed the war in Ukraine. Biden tried warnings, Xi vague appeasements. Biden threatens sanctions against Chinese companies that undermine the blockade on Russia. Xi tended to present himself as a friend of Russia, but at […]
Hans-Peter Friedrich will become the head of the German-Chinese parliamentary group, reports the Berlin website “The Pioneer”. Friedrich is a renowned expert on China and co-founder of the China-Brücke (China Bridge). He served as Vice President of the German Bundestag until the change of government.Gary Liu, previously head of the South China Morning Post owned […]
The “wolf-like nature” of the enemy makes it easy to fight them “bitterly and bloody”. When commonly used expressions degrade entire groups of people and incite hatred against them, they embed themselves in people’s minds. In today’s column, Johnny Erling warns about China’s ossified friend-foe speech. Propaganda introduced them under Mao and never adjusted them. […]