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It is exactly 27 years to the day that Gedhun Choekyi Nyima became the world’s youngest political prisoner. It was May 17, 1995, when Chinese security forces abducted the then six-year-old. To this day, there is no conclusive sign of life from Nyima. His parents also disappeared that day. The official Communist Party version claims […] continue reading →

As one of the co-initiators of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Mark Leonard ranks among the top members of the transatlantic think-tank. The Englishman is in high demand as a political advisor and member of important international bodies – for example, Leonard served as Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics at […] continue reading →

Daniel Roetting has been living and working in Beijing for ten years. When he moved to the Chinese capital in 2012, he started there as CEO and partner of the trading company Plix Trading Co., Ltd. Two years earlier, he was already the European representative of this company. His main task in Beijing is to […] continue reading →

Has Niao Wu reached her goal? What a question. Of course not. Never. Although the 35-year-old architect has already built the innovation center for BMW in Shanghai, kicked it up a notch at the Boston Consulting Group, and founded her start-up Onyo in Munich in 2021. With her company, she provides sustainably produced work furniture […] continue reading →

Kristin Shi-Kupfer’s fascination with China first began with an episode of MacGyver. This particular episode was about the 1989 democracy movement in Beijing and the June 4th massacre. “The MacGyver episode was a fictional story, of course, but the real-life background of the story grabbed me,” Shi-Kupfer says. A few years later, Shi-Kupfer enrolled in […] continue reading →

He just worked for three weeks straight, says Christoph Trebesch; now he finally has some time to think again – and to spend more time with his children. He recently submitted a grant application to the European Research Council, into which he “threw everything he had”. Trebesch hopes to receive funding approval. The 42-year-old economist […] continue reading →

They dance and fight, smash down front doors, test house cats for Covid-19, and sometimes get kicked around by old ladies – the so-called Da Bai (大白), China’s Covid helpers in white disposable protective suits have become a symbol of the lockdown craze in the People’s Republic. The nickname, which translates as “big white,” derives […] continue reading →

The mysterious case of the missing Tibetan teacher Rinchen Kyi has apparently found a happy ending. The mother of a 13-year-old daughter has been escorted back home by police officers on Sunday evening. Kyi had been taken to a hospital against her will by police on August 1 last year and disappeared for eight months […] continue reading →

“I hoped that after two years of Corona we would now find calmer waters,” admits Ulrich Ackermann. It turned out differently. His foreign trade department at the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) is particularly busy at the moment. Currently, the main issues are the sanctions against Russia and their implications, including for trade with China. Ackermann […] continue reading →