Interview with Joe Kaeser + Uranium from the sea

As head of the Asia-Pacific Committee, one of Joe Kaeser’s tasks is to pick up on the mood and interests of the business community and translate them into concrete positions. At the same time, he is increasingly taking on a role as a thought leader on trade policy issues: In his time as an active Siemens manager, he gained plenty of experience in business practice, and as a group CEO, he moved in the corridors of power in recent years. In an interview with China.Table, he advises the government and companies: We shouldn’t get on China’s bad side, but simultaneously look for alternatives intensively. An exporting nation cannot afford trade disputes, but it must also not be dependent on an unpredictable foreign market.

Did the production of cheap fur bring us the pandemic? Tanuki have beautiful, soft fur. That’s why fur farms in China breed them en masse. The virologist Christian Drosten suspects the origin of the worldwide rampant epidemic here. Due to negligence in keeping and barbaric methods of slaughtering, the virus could have jumped over to humans. Perhaps, the Chinese leadership is not at all unjustified in the great discussion about the laboratory origin regarding this. After all, a false lead could distract from the true origin of the pandemic.

In the 1950s and 1960s, uranium was the energy raw material of the future; at the time, its reserves were still considered practically inexhaustible. For China, nuclear power is still an important building block for a climate-neutral power supply today. However, China’s own uranium reserves will only last a few more years, as Frank Sieren reports. The country’s technicians thus now want to extract the radioactive metal from the sea. At least, this is an effort Germany can spare itself because of its nuclear-free strategy.

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