Selina Cheng, regarding your dismissal, which was met with global outrage, the Wall Street Journal argues that its employees should not appear in public as advocates of press freedom in places like Hong Kong. Is that something you can understand?No, I cannot. I was told that such a function would not be compatible with our […]
China’s position in the Ukraine war has triggered a rethink in German academia. Ever since numerous pieces of evidence have emerged that Beijing is providing military support to its close friend and strategic partner Vladimir Putin, a number of collaborations between German universities and research institutes and Chinese institutions have been cast in a different […]
In the Republican election program, US presidential candidate Donald Trump confirms the United States’ decline. He is actually just repeating what Beijing has been predicting for many years. This is interesting insofar as China has been persistently preaching beliefs to its opponents in the rest of the world that will eventually (or are supposed to) […]
Almost two-thirds of all wind and solar energy capacity currently under construction is being built in China. In other words, China currently creates almost twice as many alternative energy sources as the rest of the world combined. This is according to a study by the US think tank Global Energy Monitor (GEM). The share of […]
Car sales in China have continued to fall despite government incentives. According to the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) on Monday, sales fell by 6.9 percent year-on-year to 1.78 million vehicles. This is the third consecutive month of shrinking car sales in China.The price war that has been raging in the world’s largest vehicle market […]
Chinese officials exponentially line their own pockets. This is the result of a study conducted by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in collaboration with the City University of New York. It found that civil servants earn an average of eight to fourteen times their regular salary through corruption. The higher up a […]
Mr. Fulda, in your book “Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security,” you identify the paradigm of “change through trade” as the driving force behind the unconditional entanglement of German elites with the People’s Republic of China. Why is that?Paradigms such as “change through trade” and Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s “interdependence and integration” were […]
The cultural events marking the 27th anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover to the People’s Republic of China have met with little response from the city’s citizens. A four-day event in the centrally located Victoria Park registered low visitor numbers.For the first time since the Covid pandemic, Victoria Park was once again permitted as a venue […]
The Chinese Communist Party once again recorded fewer members among the under-30s last year. The number of young people in the Party shrank again by 23,000 to around 12.4 million. The year before, there were even 189,000 fewer in the under-30 age group.Nevertheless, the Party is likely to break the 100 million member mark towards […]
When it comes to de-risking, the questions we ask ourselves are always the same: Do we want to leave the development of critical infrastructure to Chinese companies? Do we want to make our digital or green transformation dependent on Chinese companies?The cleantech risk analysis by the European Council on Foreign Relations, which is available to […]