The standoff over the US business of video platform TikTok is approaching its big showdown. Once again, Elon Musk is in the spotlight. The US authorities’ forced sale of the subsidiary of the Chinese ByteDance empire could culminate in the tech billionaire taking over the billion-dollar network. In any case, Beijing campaigns for Musk to […]
Stephan Kuntner is the new Executive Director China Global Solutions Europe at insurance broker AON. Based in Hamburg, Kuntner and his team support Chinese investors in Germany and Europe in all insurance and risk management issues. Kuntner was previously an authorized signatory at the Funk Group, where his responsibilities included managing the Chinese subsidiary in […]
Soon it will be that time again. Official China comes to a standstill while its billion-strong population heads home – for the world’s largest voluntary mass migration. Chinese New Year and the Chunjie Spring Festival (春节) are just around the corner. Like every year, city dwellers will work through the last weekend before the traditional […]
Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng remains in prison despite international protests. On Monday, the Intermediate People’s Court in Suzhou upheld its decision from October last year, according to which the 57-year-old will remain in prison for three years until April 2026 for “inciting subversion of state power.” The European Union expressed its deep regret […]
The Serbian military is now able to defend its airspace with the Chinese FK-3 air defense missile system. The Serbian Ministry of Defense announced at the beginning of the year that the system is now operational. It includes a command vehicle, missile launchers, radar equipment and logistics vehicles. Serbian military representatives speak of a “milestone […]
China’s one-child policy is one of the biggest social interventions by a government in the post-war period. The result is well known: China has successfully curbed the dynamic growth of its population. However, the consequences of the government’s birth control policy are so immense that it has long since become a massive problem. The demographic […]
You really have to envy a bird’s perspective on the world. This picture from December shows an observation tower in the Huanghai Forest Park – a large, ecological, artificially created area in the city of Dongtai in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. In the 1960s, a forest area of 2,500 hectares was created on a […]
The police have arrested a Chinese citizen on the premises of a German naval base in Kiel. According to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), the public prosecutor is considering charges of espionage. Reportedly, the man was apprehended on Dec. 9 with a camera on the naval base. It is alleged that the detainee took security-sensitive photographs of […]
Today we are introducing you to a very special medium: the magazine Mang Mang, founded by Chinese exiles. The Chinese-language publication will appear for the third time in January and pursues noble goals. It aims to promote cohesion between Chinese exiles, strengthen the country’s civil society, and connect activists worldwide. This is not only a […]
The head of the Italian canning company Mutti is calling for industrial policy protection in the EU against non-transparent tomato imports from China. Company director Francesco Mutti told the news magazine Der Spiegel: “We should stop imports or impose import tariffs of 50, 60 percent on Chinese tomatoes – to protect local producers and also […]