Chinese carmaker Chery, together with Austrian supplier AVL, has achieved a breakthrough in EV efficiency. For now, it is still a demonstration model, but series production has already been approved.
By Christian Domke Seidel
The EU is concluding free trade and security agreements in the region in order to protect itself more effectively against geopolitical tensions.
By Antonia Zimmermann
EU institutions such as the European Investment Bank will soon no longer be allowed to fund Chinese inverters for solar parks. Because of concrete risks to the power supply, there is an urgent need to act, an EU official told Table.Briefings.
By Manuel Berkel
Pakistan’s solar capacity has risen rapidly in recent years. That transformation also has to do with China’s overcapacity. But the solar revolution has left poorer segments of the population stuck with an expensive fossil-fuel-based power grid.
By Urmi Goswami
Rather than exporting capital or state programs above all, China is increasingly supplying the blueprints for entrepreneurship in Africa’s start-up ecosystem.
By Fabian Peltsch
Brussels has allowed the client behind the construction of a Lisbon metro line to proceed with the contract award. But it has attached conditions to the award in order to eliminate competitive distortions caused by Chinese subsidies.
By Antonia Zimmermann
New Chinese laws are undermining the EU’s legislative authority and putting companies in a bind. This is the Chinese government's way of pushing back against the European “de-risking” strategy, which has so far failed to yield tangible results.
By János Allenbach-Ammann
New Chinese laws are undermining the EU’s legislative authority and putting companies in a bind. In doing so, Beijing is adding to its arsenal against Europe’s de-risking strategy, which so far has produced little visible effect.
By János Allenbach-Ammann
AI is increasingly making inroads into China’s entertainment sector. Computer-generated actors are appearing more and more often, especially in so-called microdramas. The phenomenon is now beginning to spread in the West as well.
By Fabian Peltsch
In China, “Made in Germany” still carries weight. But not when it comes to EVs: According to a study by Berylls by AlixPartners, nearly one in four drivers of a German electric car would not buy the same brand again.
By Christian Domke Seidel
