What lies ahead for Germany's international relations after the Merkel era? Five theses on developments under the next chancellor. The EU will continue to liberate itself from the US – at the same time, Germany's role could improve if it plays its cards right.
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Yuen Yuen Ang is a professor of Chinese economics at the University of Michigan. As an author, she focuses on the global implications of China's rise. Ang also looks at the problems posed by China's rapid industrialization and explains why arbitrary decrees from Beijing's political leadership stand in the way of the country's global rise.
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China's panda diplomacy was made famous by a gift to US President Nixon – or rather, to his wife, Pat Nixon. But pandas have always been Beijing's image carrier and diplomatic tool, even dating back to the Tang Dynasty. However, a specimen of the black and white bears once fell victim to trigger-happy presidential sons.
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The market for electric vehicles is developing far more dynamically than could have been expected years ago. Countries that fail to recognize the trend now and convert their economies will face high subsequent costs in the future, believe former International Monetary Fund Vice President Min Zhu and economists Fuad Hasanov and Reda Cherif . The trio of state-affiliated economists believe: market forces in emerging markets will drivethe electric revolution much faster than the stolid players in established industrialized countries have so far expected.
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The shine of China's free-market reforms is peeling off due to constant arbitrary interference by nation and party. And even with Beijing's policy of opening up the country, which it has promised for the past 40 years, no state can be formed upon. This has once again been proven by the low number of foreigners residing in China. The new census counted 845,697 foreigners in the whole country. This equals only 0.06 percent of the population. With its proportion of foreigners, the supposedly globalized People's Republic brings up the rear among all other major nations.
By Amelie Richter
The director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yu Yongding, expresses concern about China's growth prospects for the second half of the year. He harbors doubts about the zero-covid strategy and urges the right fiscal and monetary policies to ensure that measures also reach small and medium-sized enterprises.
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In September, the school year started with a series of new textbooks. According to a decree issued by the Ministry of Education, "Xi Jinping Thought on Special Chinese Socialism for the New Age" was to be included. Beijing is not just boosting the cult of personality through this. A year before the big election party congress, it is also a sign that Xi is willing and is going to continue to rule China – after all, his thoughts are now compulsory reading material in all schools.
By Amelie Richter
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt now heads a new US panel to oversee the development of artificial intelligence. Schmidt is concerned: as China increasingly uses technology to usher in a new form of authoritarianism, global democracies must come together and stand up for their own values and strategic interests.
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As more commentators warn of a coming military conflict between the United States and China, it is easy to believe that war is inevitable. But while history suggests that rising powers will often clash with incumbent ones, there are important exceptions and unique present circumstances to consider.
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China's leadership has never changed its policy this quickly. Last Friday, the People's Congress allowed China's women to give birth to three children. Fears of a population decline, rapid aging and a shortage of young workers tipped the scales in favor of the radical departure from its former one-child society. But China's censors are now hardly able to suppress outrage among the population: If China now faces a low birthrate, why was there a need for cruel coercion in the past?
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