Like heads of state around the world, Xi Jinping has also congratulated newly elected Donald Trump. And as with other heads of state, how the congratulations are expressed shows how enthusiastically or cautiously the victory is being received. Trump’s threat of 60 percent tariffs on Chinese imports harbors serious growth risks for China. However, apart […]
Lian Yan took over the position of Senior Sourcing Engineer at BYD in September. The founder and software developer is responsible for the development and support of overseas resources and suppliers at BYD. He is based in Chongqing.Clara Kummer is leaving her post as Business Development Manager at Siemens Commercial Factoring in Shanghai. As Project […]
Beijing also speaks of a “Zeitenwende” – it just doesn’t call it that. Ten years before German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Xi Jinping, who had been promoted to Party and army chief in November 2012, said at his first meeting with the new military leadership that China was facing “profound changes unseen in centuries.” These would […]
Rarely has a US election been so close, the result so difficult to predict and expectations so anxious. China is also hotly debating who will move into the White House. Newspapers, expert panels, think tanks and social media are discussing the implications of the election for China, possible influence in the background and the particularities […]
China has requested that countries hold talks at next week’s COP29 UN climate summit on carbon border taxes and other “restrictive trade measures” that Beijing says are hurting developing countries, according to a document seen by Reuters. This year’s UN climate talks begin on November 11 in Baku, Azerbaijan.China, on behalf of the BASIC country […]
The Chinese service sector recorded its strongest growth in three months last October. According to a private sector survey published on Tuesday, the Caixin/S&P Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose from 50.3 points in September to 52.0 points. Values above the 50-point mark signal growth. Experts see this development as the first sign of the effectiveness […]
The head of the Chancellery, Wolfgang Schmidt, participated in the so-called Sino-German Security Dialogue in China. This was announced by government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit in Berlin on Tuesday. The talks between German officials and the head of the Central Commission for Politics and Law, Chen Wenqing, as well as Chinese officials took place on Monday […]
The Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business in New Delhi, India, was my sixth consecutive APK, and somehow I can’t shake off the feeling that our hosts in Asia take us a little less seriously each time. Although – or perhaps precisely because – Germany’s political presence with the Federal Chancellor, Minister for Economic Affairs and […]
Although China was not present at the 18th Asia-Pacific Conference (APK) in New Delhi, discussions frequently returned to the question of how Germany and Europe can position themselves amid global geopolitical conflicts, especially with China and other nations vying for top positions. The panels and side conversations focused on de-risking, innovation capabilities and relations with […]