Fog in Tianjin. Or rather clouds? In any case, the roof of the Tianjin World Financial Center sticks out of the white soup. From the drone’s bird’s eye view, it looks like a ship in a sea of white waves. At 337 meters, the “Jin Tower” is high enough to provide a view from its […]
Airlines will have to thin out their services to and from China even further in the coming months. The aviation authority foresees even fewer connections for the winter flight schedule than this summer, which already saw a reduced schedule. This was reported by ARD radio from Shanghai. The reason given for the restriction of flight […]
Tennis player Peng Shuai (35) has accused a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party of sexual harassment. Zhang Gaoli (74) was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP from 2012 to 2017. He is one of the most powerful men in the country. The case comes amid a wave of allegations […]
The US government expects China to build around 800 more nuclear bombs by 2030. The country has about 200 warheads so far, according to the report. The country probably already has the “nuclear triad” of air-, sea- and land-based nuclear weapons delivery systems, the US Department of Defense notes in an annual report on Chinese […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Taiwan with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. According to the American account of the meeting, the aim was to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts. The meeting lasted one hour and took place in an open and constructive atmosphere. Blinken expressed […]
The US published a supplemented version of its intelligence report on the origin of Sars-CoV-2 at the weekend. In it, the authors cite the possibility of a laboratory accident in the city of Wuhan as a possible scenario for the release of the pathogen. At the same time, they rule out the possibility that the […]
ZDF has withdrawn a documentary series from its media library because it adopts China’s point of view too much. A rerun of “China vs. USA – Clash of the Superpowers” in the ZDF Info program has also been canceled, the website Übermedien reports. The four-part series was produced by Mediacorp, Singapore’s state broadcaster. The series […]
Chinese carmaker Geely has successfully floated its Swedish subsidiary Volvo on the stock market. The Volvo Car AB share rose by 23 percent to 65.20 kronor on the first day of trading. The first price was already ten percent above the issue price. The company thus raised just over two billion euros on Friday. Geely […]
The financial world came up with some funny nicknames for their products. Dim sum is no longer just a delicious Guangdong specialty, but a special type of bond. Borrowers from southern China can use them to raise money on the international financial market. The city of Shenzhen now has issued such a bond to foreign […]
China is still officially an emerging market, but at the same time, it is the world’s largest donor in development cooperation. It lends enormous sums, especially in the scope of the New Silk Road. However, the details of the cash flows are shockingly unclear. “Even Chinese state actors usually can’t see the whole picture,” says […]