Witty comedians have a hard time in China. The just blossoming stand-up comedy scene in the big metropolises is experiencing this: If the jokes are unpopular, punishments ensue.There is a fine line, even for Jamie Wang, a mainland Chinese comedian who currently studies in Taiwan. The interview conducted by Fabian Peltsch resonates with her concern […]
He is the man whom party leaders trust. Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping: They all allowed Wang Huning to shape their political programs. “Three Represents”, “Harmonious Society”, “Chinese Dream” – the government slogans changed, but Wang Huning remained. The former professor has been significantly shaping China’s political development from behind the scenes for almost […]
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the bloody suppression of the student protests in Beijing on 4 June 1989. While any commemoration is rigorously prevented in Mainland China as usual, police in Hong Kong are now also cracking down demonstratively, with many arrests. The vigils of the past: impossible. Only in Taiwan are the victims […]
So far, heat pumps have been heating up debates in Germany – but hardly any apartments or houses. But that will come – six million units are expected to be installed by 2030. Will contractors be more likely to opt for products made in China or Germany? There are fears that the industry could suffer […]
The Chinese do not seem to have missed the Eiffel Tower that much. Although the population is once again allowed to travel freely, only a meager five percent of the pre-Covid tourist numbers visited France’s capital in the first two months of this year.This is painful because tourists from China bring in a lot of […]
Finding melodic names for abhorrent policies – this is what China’s communist leadership is best at. “2023 Spring Breeze” is the name of a work program in Xinjiang that serves a number of purposes. It is intended to provide ordinary farmers with rewarding jobs in industrial enterprises. But there are other reasons than mere philanthropy […]
Xi Jinping found himself in a tight spot towards the end of last year. A struggling economy, the Covid debacle and then street protests that even openly demanded his resignation – some might wonder how China’s most powerful man wants to calm the situation before the National People’s Congress this March.He went on the offensive […]
While we intensively discuss risky economic dependencies and anxiously watch China’s increasingly rougher tone towards Taiwan, we patiently wait for the China strategy of the German government. Originally, a national security strategy should already have been drafted in the first year of the German government coalition. Which was then supposed to be followed by the […]
A visitor who would not be allowed to enter the United States will land in Great Britain this Sunday. The governor of the autonomous province of Xinjiang, Erkin Tuniyaz, is traveling to London on behalf of the Chinese government. He wants to meet representatives of the British Foreign Office. Brussels and perhaps Geneva are also […]
A huge Covid infection wave is still rolling across China, but an end is slowly in sight and the spring should usher in new optimism. Hong Kong opened a little earlier. The time has now come there to get back on track after the pandemic. But simply returning to normality will hardly be possible, because […]