To meet the challenge posed by China, Germany is now copying Chinese industrial policy – and doing so on the backs of Europe’s working classes, writes Ingar Solty of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. In the process, the term “China shock” draws the dividing lines in the wrong place.
By Ingar Solty
Germany has begun to take China expertise seriously as a strategic cross-cutting task. But short-term project funding is putting the development of that knowledge at risk. What is needed are permanent structures.
By Stefan Messingschlager
In his new book, political scientist Jakob Kullik describes how China built a global raw-materials empire over decades – and why Europe is barely prepared for the new geopolitical reality.
By Jakob Kullik
Foreign investments and dependence on raw materials are also making China increasingly vulnerable to global crises. Rather than pulling back, Beijing is expanding its role as an international security actor and positioning itself as an alternative to the United States.
By Pascal Abb
The summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump could reduce the extreme risks associated with global economic developments. The likely winners are easy to identify.
By Shang-Jin Wei
For Taiwan, the question is not whether it falls or not, writes AI investor and founder Fabian Westerheide, but what happens in the stages in between. AI is sharpening those intermediate scenarios by intensifying the competition for the scarcest resources.
By Fabian Westerheide
Is China’s industrial policy really to blame for the country’s massive trade surplus? Economist Shang-Jin Wei challenges the conventional explanation and points instead to deeper causes: an extremely high savings rate, demographic trends and structural weaknesses in the financial system.
By Shang-Jin Wei
The summit between Trump and Xi comes at a time when the world is in crisis mode. While both sides project strength to the outside world, Beijing and Washington are locked in a struggle over economic interdependence, technology and geopolitical influence.
By Redaktion Table
On both sides of the Taiwan Strait, there are actors who pursue rapprochement or even unification. The military threat narrative is insufficient to fully capture Taiwan’s vulnerabilities. Among the informal actors that can be leveraged are, in particular, segments of Hongmen associations.
By Henning Glaser and Morten Strantzen
Tibetan children stop speaking their native language as early as three or four years old – specifically, when they start kindergarten. These trends threaten the survival of Tibetan culture within a single generation.
By Maya Wang
