Christiane Kühl

Christiane Kühl returned to Germany in the summer of 2000 after a good 20 years in Beijing and Shanghai. From her office near the Baltic Sea in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, she continues to look after China. Her main focus is on mobility, climate protection, environment and energy. Christiane worked in China for many years as a freelance China correspondent. She is a member of the weltreporter.net network. For her stories she travelled the entire country from the southern metropolis Shenzhen with its IT startups to China's border with North Korea, which is marked by smuggling and fear of the nuclear bomb. For the China.Table Professional Briefing, Christiane Kühl looked at the Chinese players in electromobility, Chinese emissions trading and the topic of nuclear power, among other things.

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Joe Biden will travel to Asia for the first time since he took office as US president. Despite the Ukraine war, the dispute with China remains an important element of US policy. Washington wants to prevent China from attacking the Western-dominated "rules-based order". To its allies in the region, Washington wants to make new economic cooperation palatable. continue reading →

The Omicron wave and China's harsh response to it are weighing on virtually all European companies. In a survey by the EU Chamber of Commerce in China, nearly every company complains about disrupted supply chains, lack of travel and other problems. They desire a different Covid policy. Impatience is growing. continue reading →

Tesla has selected the site for its planned construction of a second production line in Shanghai, near its existing Gigafactory 3. This was reported by the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, citing a letter from the US electric carmaker to local authorities. In it, Tesla spoke of an annual capacity for the new assembly […] continue reading →

The lockdowns in China affect already struggling international goods traffic. A huge ship jam is forming off Shanghai, while ports in the west suffer from a flood of containers. At a webinar hosted by AHK Hong Kong, experts discussed the implications of this. continue reading →

Experts try to predict the economic costs of the lockdown in China. Affected municipalities have to bear high costs and suffer from production cutbacks. Zero Covid is also a logistical nightmare. And problems in the transport sector further exacerbate the situation. continue reading →

Chinese battery giant CATL has launched a battery replacement service called Evogo in its home province of Fujian. Earlier this week, the company announced it launched four fast battery exchange stations in the island city of Xiamen. The number is expected to rise to 30 by the end of this year, CATL announced on Wednesday. […] continue reading →

The online video platform YouTube has shut down the channel of the election campaign of Hong Kong’s presumably future chief executive John Lee. As the South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday, the platform, which belongs to the US group Google, removed all content from the “Johnlee2022” channel. Google had issued a statement that the […] continue reading →

China plans to set up a trading scheme for green power. But a nationwide platform is still in its infancy. Meanwhile, ongoing reforms of the electricity market are contributing to making the trade of electricity from wind and sun more feasible in the future. Corporate demand for green power is high. continue reading →

To keep production going despite China's zero-covid policy, companies in affected regions have employees sleep in groups on site after work. The closed-loop method is supposed to keep the virus out. But this only works as long as companies still receive preliminary products. continue reading →