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Finn Mayer-Kuckuk

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 6th, 2021

Embassy angered over Baerbock interview

The Chinese embassy in Germany has released a cautious assessment of the first interview of Foreign Minister-designate Annalena Baerbock: “Some people” put the spotlight on “differences and disagreements”, Chinese diplomats said. They hoped German policymakers would “devote more energy to advancing practical cooperation between the two sides in various fields.”Chinese criticism of the interview is […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 3rd, 2021

Twitter deletes more than 3000 accounts

Short messaging service Twitter has removed more than 3,000 accounts linked to state-directed influence. Customer accounts with links to six countries, including China, Russia, and Mexico, were affected, Twitter explained. More than 2100 of the total 3465 accounts had ties to China. Twitter often takes such actions and removes or blocks accounts associated with countries […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 3rd, 2021

Dessert 03.12.2021

A 15-meter high crayfish rises in the city of Qianjiang in Hubei. Crayfish are a local specialty. Qianjiang is particularly smart about it and has built up an integrated agricultural industry of rice cultivation and crayfish breeding. This has created the largest crayfish cluster in the world.

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 3rd, 2021

Life is shifting more and more into virtual space. What seemed like science fiction a few years ago has long since become everyday life. And it now has a name: The worlds made of pure information are collectively called the “metaverse”. The denser and more entangled they become, the more economic activity will shift there. […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 3rd, 2021

Japanese ambassador summoned over Taiwan

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has summoned the Japanese ambassador to Beijing. China wants to express its disapproval about a remark made by former Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. Abe had reiterated Japan’s stance of standing by Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack at an online conference held by the Institute for National Policy Research […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 2nd, 2021

Baerbock wants to set up “climate embassies” as foreign minister

Foreign Minister-designate Annalena Baerbock (Greens) wants to use German embassies for the purpose of climate policy. The “220 German missions abroad can be important climate embassies for this purpose and also contribute to intensifying technology transfer,” she said in an interview with China.Table editor Felix Lee and journalists from the daily newspaper (taz).She also advocates […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: December 2nd, 2021

Learning from Double 11: Marketing, Retail, Consumption Trends

China’s rising consumer power plays an important part in the country’s dual circulation strategy and is an engine of global growth in many categories. The Double 11 shopping festival, as the largest and most popular annual global shopping festival in the world – now overshadowing Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined – serves as a […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: November 30th, 2021

Personnel 30.11.2021

Jan Timm has taken the position of Materials Requirements Planning Expert at Daimler Greater China’s Zhenjiang site. Previously, he worked in ramp-up management in Germany.Nils Griesbach, Key Account Manager at Kerry Logistics, has returned to Bremen after five years in Shanghai. Kerry Logistics is a shipping company from Hong Kong.

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: November 30th, 2021

Leak: CP leadership ordered camps in Xinjiang

Xinjiang researcher Adrian Zenz has published excerpts from a series of party documents that allegedly prove the direct involvement of the CP leadership in planning human rights violations in Xinjiang. It is 317 pages of text leaked by an anonymous whistleblower to the organization “Uyghur Tribunal”. Zenz is convinced that the material is genuine. It […]

Finn Mayer-Kuckuk Published: November 30th, 2021

Dessert 30.11.2021

The empty shelves at Walmart in Shenzhen have nothing to do with Covid; after all, the disease barely exists in China. The retail group is currently closing one store after another in China and is selling off its stock. Customers now prefer to order groceries via app instead of tediously shopping in stores.