For a long time, China was the “cash cow” of German companies. The automotive industry, the chemical industry and mechanical engineering benefited from the economic miracle in China in recent decades. The People’s Republic became the largest sales market for numerous companies. And for a long time, no one was as cheap as the Middle […]
Academic collaboration is one of the few fields where exchange with China remains possible. Resuming exchange programs for visiting students would be highly welcome. Contact with Chinese scientists makes sense and is worthy of support. After all, access to reliable information about what is happening in the People’s Republic is becoming scarce.However, it is also […]
One year after the launch of China’s emissions trading system, experts express disappointment about the impact of the climate protection tool. “In terms of the impact, in terms of environmental gains, clearly it’s been limited,” Matt Gray, co-founder of TransitionZero, a climate change think tank, told Reuters. He cites a surplus of CO2 allowances and […]
The current VW CEO Herbert Diess will be replaced at the helm of the car company by Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Porsche sports car group, on September 1. The Wolfsburg-based company made the announcement on Friday following a supervisory board meeting.Diess, a former BMW manager, has led Volkswagen for more than four years and […]
Concerns about the effects of extreme summer heat are also growing in China. The chief meteorologist of the province of Xinjiang, Chen Chunyan, warned on Saturday that the heat wave, which has lasted ten days so far, is already exceptionally long and affects large parts of the region.Xinjiang is two times the size of France […]
According to the Financial Times, China wants to make concessions to the US in the dispute over audit reports of companies listed on US stock exchanges. This is intended to approach the authorities and prevent hundreds of Chinese companies from being excluded from US stock exchanges, the newspaper reported. This involves access by the US […]
Chinese automaker BYD is aiming to enter the important Japanese car market with its EVs. Starting next year, three EV models will be available in Japan, the company announced. BYD wants to offer an SUV, a compact car and a sedan, as Nikkei Asia reports.Currently, EVs only account for one percent of car sales in […]
Germany’s Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner, recently spoke out in favor of fracking in northern Germany. In some cases, he said, fracking is “reasonable”. The extraction of gas deposits in the North Sea is also “sensible and feasible,” Lindner told German media.Fracking technology has brought the USA a gas boom. The country is now a […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is promoting closer relations with Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. This would reduce Germany’s dependencies on China, Baerbock said in an interview with The Pioneer portal. In the interview, she also criticized the human rights situation in China and poor conditions for some German companies, such as forced disclosure of […]
Death is probably a topic that everyone around the world prefers to avoid. It is usually not for us to decide how we leave this life – be it peacefully in our sleep or after a long illness. In some countries, it is possible to avoid extreme pain and suffering to the very end thanks […]