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Ning Wang has scoured the book market about the latest China literature for you. Perhaps it will help you find a Christmas present for a Far East fan?
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Ning Wang has scoured the book market about the latest China literature for you. Perhaps it will help you find a Christmas present for a Far East fan?
By Ning Wang
The book "A People Disappears: How we are watching China commit genocide against the Uyghurs" by Philipp Mattheis compiles what is currently known about the situation in Xinjiang. The book will be published in January 2022. China.Table presents the first chapter in advance.
By Redaktion Table
Germany's new government wants to expand solar power – while ensuring human rights in global supply chains. That will be difficult, because the solar supply chain is dominated by China. And the production of the raw material for solar modules appears to involve forced labor in Xinjiang. Trade sanctions will hardly solve the problem.
By Nico Beckert
For the first time, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai gave an interview about her claims of sexual assault against a high-ranking party official. She called it a misunderstanding, which raises new questions.
By Marcel Grzanna
China's social credit system poses major challenges for companies. Anyone who makes mistakes can end up on a "blacklist". Stigmatization and punishments could follow. But German companies are proving to be model students.
By Redaktion Table
Major automotive supplier Continental has been caught in the crossfire of a new trade conflict between the EU and China. The automotive industry is threatened with supply problems. The EU must formulate an appropriate response. And the German traffic light coalition is now forced to sort out its China policy on the fly at a crisis meeting at Vice-Chancellor Habeck's home.
By Redaktion Table
Not only Covid is to blame, when goods are missing. By setting trade barriers, politics had no small part in the current trade disruptions. IfW Kiel highlights the reasons for the current supply chain problems – and gives a somewhat pessimistic forecast for 2022.
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Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's head of government, fears a low voter turnout in the upcoming elections and is promoting free bus transport to the ballot box. At the same time, she wants to bolster police security.
By Marcel Grzanna
Long-term data on ground-zero Covid patients show: About half of the COVID-19 patients from the Wuhan outbreak are still suffering from health problems. Some symptoms even become more severe after six months.
By Frank Sieren
In January, a huge economic free-trading area will be established with the RCEP. What was intended to be a free trade agreement of the Southeast Asian confederation ASEAN, now mainly benefits China, Japan and South Korea. In this way, the People's Republic is becoming part of a regional free trade agreement for the first time.
By Christiane Kuehl