After almost 150 years in the country, a Chinese manager is taking over responsibility for the China business of the German industrial flagship Siemens for the first time: Xiao Song, born in Sichuan in 1965, holds a doctorate in engineering from the Technical University in Dortmund. In the concert of German conglomerates, this appointment is […]
The Belgian parliament had to postpone a planned debate on human rights crimes in Xinjiang until mid-May on Tuesday due to a hacker attack. The hearing of a former Uyghur camp inmate had to be canceled after the local network operator Belnet was paralyzed by a massive cyber attack. In addition to the House of […]
The Australian government is considering terminating a lease with a Chinese port operator in Darwin, northern Australia. Out of concern for national security, the Department of Defence wants to examine whether the Chinese Landbridge Group should be stripped of its rights of use. This is based on the 2020 reformed Foreign Investment Act. In 2015, […]
US carmaker Tesla apparently fears a slump in its sales figures on the Chinese market. The company is working feverishly to avoid completely squandering its reputation in the country. Its sales had more than doubled in the People’s Republic last year – but now a dip is looming. The company has therefore recently become a […]
The Baltic Sea is not only attractive for holidaymakers. Its lure also reaches governments whose members have other plans there than to spend a few days relaxing on the coast. For the People’s Republic of China, the geographical location of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia on the north-eastern edge of the European Union offers an attractive […]
The American electric car pioneer Tesla is also becoming increasingly familiar with the complicated relationship between foreign industry and the Chinese state. In recent months, the US company has had a tough time in the People’s Republic: recalls, customer complaints, subpoenas from authorities, media attacks – the entire program that so many other companies have […]
The Human Rights Committee of the German Bundestag will again address the issue of Xinjiang on May 17 (starting at 5 p.m.). The committee wants to discuss whether reports and documents on arbitrary mass detentions, torture, and birth control from the Muslim-majority autonomous region in northwest China justify the label genocide. Experts will be consulted […]
The Dalai Lama’s former special envoy laments a growing distancing of the world from Tibetans. “The closer the economic ties of the states to the People’s Republic of China have become in recent years, the greater the distance that the policies of these states have taken on the Tibet issue,” said Kelsang Gyaltsen in an […]
The planned expansion of the IT Security Act is a good example of how much the political and economic rise of the People’s Republic of China is already preoccupying German politics these days. The legislative process has already been dragging on for more than two years. One good reason for the stalemate is the issue […]
Milo Djukanovic has been arguably the most influential figure in his home country of Montenegro for decades. He has been prime minister several times and is currently president for the second time. His big dream is apparently to bequeath the small country in the Western Balkans a motorway that runs from the Adriatic coast right […]