Would you have recognized it? The night sky above Chongqing is illuminated by a choreography of 500 drones dancing in the air to entertain the crowds.The use of drones has come a long way in China. They deliver food, extinguish building fires or paint silhouettes in the night. In Shenzhen, 2,000 drones were deployed at […]
At the Munich Security Conference in 2014, then-German President Joachim Gauck reminded Germans: “Thinking about existential questions must be at the heart of society.” Almost ten years later, Gauck expressed his disappointment that his appeal for Germany to become more involved in security policy went largely unheeded.Few issues reveal this misguided development more clearly than […]
In the systemic competition with the world’s democracies, autocracies are increasingly gaining the upper hand. The Bertelsmann Foundation’s tenth transformation index, which analyzes the situation in the world’s developing and transition countries, diagnoses the continuation of a global trend. “In a growing number of countries, the opponents of democratic and market-economy reforms are at the […]
The last daylight falls over the cloudy skies above the huge development project on the west side of Jiaozhou Bay in the coastal city of Qingdao. The West Coast New Area covers 2,096 square kilometers of land and around 5,000 square kilometers of sea, making it one of the three largest urban centers in the […]
By acquiring German citizenship, the arrested Jian G. provided himself with a solid cover. From the outside, a decision to accept the German and thus reject Chinese citizenship appears to be a genuine concession. However, the evidence of the past few days suggests the opposite: G. apparently exploited his German passport to provide the People’s […]
Just one day after three German businesspeople were arrested on charges of spying for China, an employee of MEP Maximilian Krah from the right-wing German AfD party, Jian G., was arrested on Wednesday. According to the allegations, however, G. was not simply recruited to spy for China. According to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, the […]
Charlton Zhang has been CFO of the Swiss medical technology manufacturer Straumann in China since March. He previously worked for the Danish pharmaceutical company ALK in China.Benedikt Kiesel has been Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at BMW China Leasing since March. The banking expert has been working in the car manufacturer’s leasing business in China since […]
What looks like a crater landscape on the moon is actually part of the Karez irrigation system of the Hami Basin in Xinjiang. The technology for underground storage of groundwater is probably thousands of years old. However, the craters in Xinjiang probably only date back to the 15th century. Along with the Great Wall and […]
Less than 100 days before the Olympic Games in Paris, Chinese athletes are already making headlines. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed reports that 23 swimmers tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine in January 2021, just a few months before the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Despite this, the athletes were allowed to compete […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has received harsh backlash for giving human rights virtually no space during his trip to China. The Tibet Initiative Germany accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of sending a fatal signal to Beijing – that despite the disastrous development of its human rights record, the Chinese government can expect “at best only mild […]