Last Friday, Chinese human rights activist Wang Aizhong received an unpleasant phone call. Someone told him that his car had been damaged. He should come to the vehicle immediately to inspect the damage. Wang followed the request and found that there was no damage at all. Instead, he ran into a group of police officers […]
It is fair to say that Bytedance founder Zhang Yiming is not a particularly talented manager. That may sound silly because, within nine years, he has created a digital platform with his Chinese start-up that has kept its customers worldwide glued to their screens longer than Facebook, Instagram, and the like. But Zhang made this […]
It’s bad news for Chinese bachelors. It’s not enough that there are far more men of marriageable age in the People’s Republic than women, which is why tens of millions of men are mathematically falling by the wayside. Those ladies who are theoretically on the market are now also increasingly less interested in marriage.At the […]
The newly elected president of the Tibetan government-in-exile (Sikyong), Penpa Tsering, wants to persuade the Chinese leadership to resume autonomy talks during his term. Tsering told China.Table, “The Chinese government thinks it has plenty of time while Tibet is populated by more and more Han Chinese. This is tantamount to cultural genocide.” Tsering takes office […]
Hard to believe, but Germany is slowly but surely turning into a popular location for battery production for EVs. Daimler has started manufacturing its own high-performance battery systems at its traditional Hedelfingen plant, Volkswagen is investing in the production of future-proof solid-state batteries in Salzgitter, Porsche wants to build a battery factory for high-performance cells […]
In the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang, the Attorney General could open investigations into crimes against humanity. This assessment was shared by several international law experts at a public hearing before the Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag on Monday afternoon. The lawyers said that according to previous practice, the decisive factor was whether […]
In the coming months, the retail trade will observe how honest consumers’ loyalty to organic textiles is. The allegations of forced labor against Chinese cotton producers from Xinjiang are partly responsible for the fact that the industry will demand significantly higher cotton prices for shirts and trousers from sustainable production in the foreseeable future. Price […]
In Thuringia, more precisely in Arnstadt near Erfurt, one or the other will have heard the name Robin Zeng before. In 2011, the entrepreneur founded Contemporary Amperex Technology, or CATL. The company manufactures batteries for EVs. So many, that CATL is the largest producer in the People’s Republic of China. In perspective: world market leader.The […]
German UN Ambassador Christoph Heusgen has called on the Chinese government to end the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Speaking at a virtual high-level meeting organized by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations, Heusgen said: “We appeal to China to respect the universal […]
Technology company Apple is facing specific allegations of forced labor in its supply chain once again. Seven of its Chinese suppliers are alleged to have used unpaid Uyghur workers from the Xinjiang Autonomous Province, according to a report by the online magazine The Information, which investigated together with human rights groups. Until now, the US […]