Taiwan’s chip industry has invested around 120 billion US dollars in the construction of new semiconductor factories. This is according to research by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei.Asia. 20 new factories are currently under construction or have recently been completed. These include three factories producing chips in the latest 3 nm process. These production facilities alone each […]
China’s authorities have launched pilot programs to measure the value of the country’s forests. The background to this is the effort to create a measurement unit for “ecological services and products” in addition to gross domestic product. Nature’s “services” – for example, clean drinking water or storing carbon dioxide – are to be tracked in […]
Zhang Tao will be the new Head of the Asia-Pacific Office of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Zhang has gained experience in international organizations as a former Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The 58-year-old is the first Chinese in senior management at BIS, which is known as the “Bank of Central […]
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has vetoed the transfer of technologies and software from robot manufacturer Robox to a Chinese competitor. Chinese company Efort Intelligent Equipment wanted to increase its stake in Robox. The deal stipulated that Efort would be allowed to use some of Robox’s intellectual property. Draghi has now prevented that. However, Efort […]
For decades, engineers have been working on technical solutions to filter CO2 from the air. Nevertheless, the capture and trapping of CO2 is still in its infancy. Theoretically, it could be used to capture a large amount of greenhouse gas before it enters the atmosphere. But the technology is still very expensive and technically complex. […]
Not only breathtaking in terms of scenery – the region around the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian Province is home to a variety of archaeological sites and is the habitat of a large number of wild animals.
Jorge Toledo Albiñana has been officially confirmed as the new EU Ambassador to China. Toledo is currently the Spanish ambassador to Japan.Lukas Metzenroth has been appointed COO China at Amberg-based Herding Filtertechnik. Previously, he was responsible for Strategic Projects of the Management Board. Metzenroth got to know the China business in 2018 during an internship […]
It is a dream of many managers working on a better environmental balance: Simply separating the CO2 from the other exhaust gases at the end of the production process and disposing of it. It would be much easier to achieve the climate targets that way. This would require a technology that effectively separates CO2 from […]
Europe has a problem with Chinese steel. First, it is produced with state subsidies and in a way that is harmful to the climate, and then it ends up on the European market at knockdown prices. There is no question of fair competition, and certainly no question of climate protection. But the EU wants to […]
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research wants to review research cooperations with China. A spokesman told the German newspaper “Die Welt” that a “very critical examination” would have to be made of where scientific cooperation is still meaningful and possible. The background to the reviews are the renewed reports of human rights violations in […]