A very special flight will take off from Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday evening: For the last time, a charter plane of the German Chamber of Commerce Abroad (AHK) is scheduled to depart there at 7:10 pm for the Chinese port city of Qingdao. These flights were in high demand among German expats during the pandemic […]
Only a few days after China presented its 12-point plan for settling the war in Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko traveled to Beijing. Lukashenko, of all people, was immediately murmured in Western diplomatic circles. After all, he is one of the most important allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Indeed, the optics of the visit appear […]
Recently, it became quiet about the problems on the Chinese real estate market. But a protest by angered real estate buyers that began on a small scale and recently spread to cities across the country within a few weeks shows that the market is indeed still in an extremely dire situation.The big “mortgage strike” began […]
In October 2018, a whodunit played out before the eyes of the world. In the leading role: Meng Hongwei, the then head of the powerful international police organization Interpol. The then 64-year-old was the first Chinese to hold the post. But then he suddenly disappeared. Overnight.For almost 14 days, his own agency was on the […]
Chaos reigns in Zhengzhou after the heaviest rainfalls in recent history. Since Tuesday, the capital of ten million people has seen as much rainfall as it normally did in eight months. According to official reports, at least 25 people have died within the region by Wednesday evening, with seven missing – but given the horrific […]