Didi Tatlow on technology transfers + Support for Russia

Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, China has been performing a rather breathtaking balancing act on the diplomatic stage. But discontent about Beijing is growing by the day. Now, on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has finally found clear words – but many in the West will not be pleased. Wang made it clear to the press on whose side China is in this conflict: Russia.

There are many reasons why China, of all countries, would be predestined to act as a mediator, as today’s analysis shows. But for this to happen, China would have to live up to its own claim to be a responsible actor at the international level.

Our second piece of today also focuses on China’s influence, or more precisely, on technology. Speaking with Marcel Grzanna, longtime China author Didi Kirsten Tatlow reveals the various methods the People’s Republic uses to siphon off technological know-how from the West. Remarkably, not all of China’s 32 methods are illegal. However, it is easy to see which technologies China wants to get its hands on particular In any case, Tatlow’s warning is clear – and concerns us all: It is high time that we realize how much this threatens our models of open society.

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Michael Radunski