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Publishers around the world are expanding their program toward Asia. Readers are demanding translations from China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. Natalja Schmidt from Knaur Verlag talked to Table.Biefings at the start of this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair about the passion for Asian literature and the new genre of cat fiction.
By Angela Köckritz
The Dutch government is taking over the Chinese-controlled chip manufacturer Nexperia. This is intended to prevent the transfer of chip expertise. The Chinese parent company Wingtech criticizes this as "political interference".
By Ning Wang and Yi Ling Pan
According to the Foreign Ministry, China’s tightened export controls on rare earths have nothing to do with Pakistan’s cooperation with the USA. Pakistan and the USA had previously concluded a multimillion dollar deal for critical minerals.
By Yi Ling Pan
Chinese manufacturers are developing new automotive products twice as fast as their Western competitors. Why is this and what solutions are there?
By Christian Domke Seidel
In Qingdao, customs authorities have confiscated 60,000 maps that run counter to China’s ambitions on Taiwan and in the South and East China Seas.
By Angela Köckritz
The investment swindler Qian Zhimin has pleaded guilty in a British court. Defrauded people tell how they were deceived by the woman’s brilliant rhetoric.
By Marcel Grzanna
While Beijing defends the latest export controls on rare earths as a “legitimate measure,” Washington is once again responding with tariff threats. However, Chinese analysts see less of a “grand plan” by President Trump behind the escalation, and more a chaotic, inconsistent US policy – while China is strategically strengthening its trade relations in Asia and Africa. Traders in China remain calm.
By Amelie Richter
China is willing to expand its relations with North Korea in order to strengthen strategic cooperation in international and regional affairs. China’s head of state and party leader Xi Jinping wrote this in a letter to Kim Jong Un.
By Ning Wang
A Philippine ship has been rammed by a Chinese ship in the Spratly Islands. Both sides blame each other.
By Ning Wang