Surveys confirm: Few things frighten Germans more than rising living costs. Inflation in Germany is currently over two percent – which is still moderate, but higher than we have been used to recently. Some of this comes from China via detours and is caused by high raw material prices. China is the largest importer of […]
Swedish fashion company H&M has seen its sales in China plummet by 28 percent in the 1st quarter of this year. Sales fell by the equivalent of nearly $74 million in the three months of March, April, and May, as reported by Wall Street Journal. The sales decline in China remains the only one worldwide.At […]
Sven Heineken is leaving the German School in Shanghai. He had been headmaster at the Pudong site since August 2014. The school is one of the largest German schools abroad in the world.
While Beijing celebrated the CCP’s birthday, demonstrators gathered in New Delhi in front of the Chinese embassy to protest against the tyranny in Tibet. The Tibetan Youth Congress protested that the human rights situation continues to deteriorate. When young people started tearing up Chinese flags, police intervened and detained them on a bus.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research has allocated a further €12 million to promote China expertise in Germany. Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek stated: “I do not want the Chinese government to influence our universities and our society“. Confucius institutes had been “given too much leeway” and too little had been done to “build […]
On Tuesday, the foreign ministers of the G20 countries met. The focus was on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that he would also address the so-called vaccine diplomacy of China and Russia at the meeting, “of which we think nothing”. The COVID-19 pandemic should not be about “short-term […]
A court in Stockholm on Tuesday upheld the ban on Huawei selling 5G equipment in Sweden. An earlier first-instance ruling was thus affirmed. A Swedish regulator banned Huawei from supplying 5G antennas to Swedish mobile companies late last year over safety concerns. The tech company and its also Chinese competitor ZTE have been barred by […]
China is playing a prominent role in the European Championship – at least on the perimeter advertising and as an official partner of the organizing UEFA. Christiane Kuehl not only took a closer look at the four goals scored by the German team against Portugal but also scrutinized the so-called “Sponsoring Soft Power“. Chinese companies […]
More than 40 countries on Tuesday called on China to independently investigate allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang. They are calling for the UN human rights envoy, Michelle Bachelet, to be granted access to the region. She would then be able to get an idea of the situation on-site. China is accused of unjustly […]
Since the protests against the “Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act” between Hong Kong and mainland China in the summer of 2019, 470 Hong Kong citizens have sought asylum in six Western countries, according to research by the South China Morning Post. Australia (305) and Britain (121) accounted for the bulk […]