Western politicians and business leaders are pondering which host gifts they can use to win over potential partners in the People's Republic. The Chinese know how to do this better. For them, handwritten calligraphy is often enough to make a foreigner's heart beat faster. Especially when it is the emperor himself who takes up the brush.
By Redaktion Table
Instead of six percent, China's economy could grow by over eight percent this year. But exports are unlikely to drive growth as strongly as last year. Private households are not expected to provide an immense growth boost either. To compensate for the lack of aggregate demand, the central bank will have to put more money into infrastructure.
By Redaktion Table
The EU is engaged in China-bashing at a time when its own reputation is damaged, and its room for maneuver is dwindling. Fundamentally, the question arises as to the sense and effect of politically motivated sanctions, such as those imposed against China. There are many analyses that come to the conclusion that the effects of sanctions are usually misjudged. And with regard to China, it cannot be assumed that the sanctions will trigger a process that will improve Europe's relations with China and thus open up opportunities for influence.
By Redaktion Table
The former army doctor Jiang Yanyong will soon be 90 years old. He has been living under house arrest in Beijing for two years. He courageously exposed the Sars epidemic in 2003. Now, when he called on the party leadership for the second time to confront the unresolved legacy of its June 4, 1989, military campaign, Beijing imposed its political lockdown on the unfaltering man.
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Beijing is threatening to miss its targets in the current five-year plan if it continues to take a hard line against the West – not only against the US but also against other countries. The example of H M shows how interdependent China is on the West, especially when it comes to domestic jobs.
By Redaktion Table
The introduction of emissions trading in China opens up the opportunity for joint certificate trading with the EU. The gains from such a link would be enormous, and border adjustment would be superfluous. Sonja Peterson and Malte Winkler, researchers at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, write about the political conditions that need to be created and the regulations that need to be put in place for the project to succeed.
By Antje Sirleschtov
In 1957, Mao ordered 60 million Chinese to "cook steel" and built 240,000 small blast furnaces. That was the beginning of a steel addiction that has driven China's steel production up year after year ever since. With state-subsidized steel, Beijing floods the world market. Now, Xi Jinping says this has to stop because the steel glut is counteracting his goals for reducing CO2 emissions.
By Antje Sirleschtov
Eberhard Sandschneider's criticism of "China bashing" on China.Table overlooks the fact that a totalitarian political change has taken place in the PRC under Xi Jinping. His demands for dialogue and cooperation sound plausible. However, under the conditions of "Document No. 9", there can be no open-ended intercultural dialogue with China.
By Redaktion Table
Since January 1, China's citizens have had the legal right to freely choose their names. Thanks to digitalization, they provide the world's largest surveillance apparatus with big data. The police are thrilled.
By Antje Sirleschtov
Double standards in dealing with China: The US talks about values, but it means geopolitical influence. The Europeans also talk about values, but they mean economic interests. Meanwhile, sanctions help no one, certainly not the people of Xinjiang and Hong Kong. Instead of verbal armament and the military show of force of times past, the West should seek dialogue with Beijing. After all, everyone knows that the world's problems can only be solved with China, not against it.
By Redaktion Table
