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At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping celebrate closing ranks against the West. But the warm words distract from Xi's true success.
By Michael Radunski
Too dependent on China, not strategic enough, too focused on short-term profits – the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics, Franziska Brantner (Greens), accuses German businesses of being too naive in its dealing with the world's second-largest economy. With a new strategy, the German government wants to break China's dominance in mineral resources, among other things. Felix Lee and Till Hoppe spoke with Brantner.
By Redaktion Table
The People's Republic is trying to exert influence across the globe with lots of money and even more propaganda, with Confucius Institutes and cultural projects of all kinds. Threats and economic coercion are part of the repertoire. So far, all efforts have been in vain. In the West, Beijing is only running up against ever higher walls. Although it does have effective means at its disposal to exploit its soft powers. One of these, which it once wielded to make foreigners' mouths water, is China's cuisine.
By Experts Table.Briefings
The EU Commission wants to ban the sale of products made from forced labor - and is already accepting verifiable evidence for this. And there is already plenty of evidence in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. However, it will still take some time before the ban is introduced.
By Amelie Richter