The Chinese electric car start-up Jiyue, originally founded in 2021 under Jidu as a “Robocar brand,” is in financial difficulties. The joint venture between Geely and Baidu is apparently no longer even able to pay employee social security. There are also rumors of mass layoffs. However, the company has denied bankruptcy. According to the trade […]
US President-elect Donald Trump has invited China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping to his inauguration in Washington on January 20. When asked whether Xi had responded, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News that this was “still to be determined.” She did not reveal the names of […]
Following an extensive hacker attack, the USA sanctioned the Chengdu-based cybersecurity company Sichuan Silence Information Technology Company and its employee Guan Tianfeng. In April 2020, they allegedly planted malware on thousands of computers worldwide, the US Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday. More than 80,000 firewalls were affected. Three dozen of […]
At the end of November 2022, university student Huang Yicheng participated in the White Paper protests in Shanghai. A tragic fire where ten people suffered agonizing deaths in a sealed-off high-rise building in Urumqi during the lockdown triggered a wave of solidarity. Only a few days later, people took to the streets in several cities, […]
They are already over 100 days old and have finally been presented to the public on St. Nicholas Day. The two panda cubs were born at Berlin Zoo on August 22. And the names of the fluffy panda girls are now official: Meng Hao 梦好 and Meng Tian 梦甜 – or Leni and Lotti in […]
According to the South China Morning Post, uncertain economic prospects and dampened demand weigh on Chinese private companies. It cites a survey by the independent Beijing research institute Dacheng, which published the results of the survey on its WeChat account on Thursday.The survey polled 806 private companies in late November, most of which were small […]
On Sunday, the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense reported that Chinese warships had doubled in number near the island. It spoke of a total of 16 ships. According to security circles, a new round of military drills is expected.China recently reacted angrily to Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s visit to Hawaii and the US territory of Guam. […]
If you think about it, the word sunflower is not entirely accurate. Shouldn’t it be called “direction-sun-flower” (向 xiàng “direction,” 日 rì “sun,” 葵 kuí “large-flowered plant”) like in Chinese?
US car manufacturer General Motors (GM) has prepared its shareholders for charges in the China business of more than five billion US dollars – the equivalent of around €4.8 billion. The company announced on Wednesday that the restructuring costs of the joint venture with SAIC Motors would amount to 2.6 to 2.9 billion dollars. The […]
We know paper tigers and house tigers, but in China you may also come across “wall tigers” (壁 bì “wall, wall, rock face”; 虎 hǔ as in 老虎 Lǎohǔ “tiger”). But don’t worry: contrary to what the word might suggest, these are harmless “tigers”, meaning geckos or salamanders. Fancy more? www.new-chinese.org