The buzz surrounding the launch of the Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek is still going strong. Italy has temporarily banned the download, while France is also investigating the application’s integrity. Fabian Peltsch took the opportunity to speak with Feiyu Xu, former head of SAP’s AI research center, and Hans Uszkoreit, co-founder of the German Research Center […]
Chinese social media accounts backed by the state have apparently made a coordinated effort to accompany the launch of the privately developed AI application DeepSeek. This conclusion can be drawn from observations by the online analysis company Graphika. The accounts involved in the campaign, including those of Chinese diplomats, embassies and state media, promoted the […]
Snooker has been firmly established in China for many years. In fact, numerous players from the People’s Republic now rank among the extended world elite – a development that was not foreseeable until the late 2000s. It has not yet been enough for a Chinese snooker pro to win a World Championship title, for example. […]
There is a straightforward path to ending our dependence on fossil fuels: nurture green industries – which would not only mitigate climate change, but also boost economic growth and job creation – and ensure that their output can be traded as widely as possible. Open trade would strengthen these industries, reduce the costs of green […]
The Chinese government has rejected responsibility for the fentanyl epidemic in the United States. “Fentanyl is America’s problem,” said a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Sunday. The ministry reacted to the introduction of additional tariffs of ten percent on all Chinese exports to the US, which will come into force on Tuesday. US […]
Concerns about Chinese domestic consumption have at least been eased somewhat at the box office. On Lunar New Year’s Day last Wednesday, over 35 million people flocked to cinemas, more than ever before on a single day in China. Ticket sales generated around 1.8 billion yuan (250 million US dollars). On top of this came […]
Li Weijie 李伟杰 can only shake his head at the good reputation of Chinese employers in Germany. While Chinese investors in this country are said to accept the rights of employees without resistance, Li has had very different experiences with state-owned companies in the People’s Republic.More than a decade ago, Li unsuccessfully sued his employer […]
The long-standing claim of unconditional friendship between Germany and the People’s Republic of China is increasingly developing into a purely pragmatic relationship of convenience. Friedrich Merz, election frontrunner for the Christian Democratic Union, recently warned German companies about the future.Merz recently referred to investments in China as a “major risk.” The CDU leader emphasized: “And […]
In his first telephone call with his counterpart Wang Yi, Secretary of State Marco Rubio clearly drew the lines against China. Rubio stressed the United States’ “commitment to our allies in the region and serious concern over China’s coercive actions against Taiwan and in the South China Sea.” This is according to the US State […]
Rugby may not be one of the most popular sports in China, but plenty of Chinese women have found their passion in this tough contact sport. And compared to a rugby nation like Australia, they are certainly not that bad. The two teams faced each other again in the rugby sevens tournament, the Olympic version […]