For months, the Chinese conglomerate Evergrande has attracted a lot of attention both within China and internationally due to its liquidity crisis. Market analysts, creditors and investors are asking: What triggered the downfall of such a large corporation? Will the Chinese government intervene? If so, in what way? How will this crisis unfold?
By Redaktion Table
Good socialists call each other "comrade." Don't they? In China, the term was long claimed by homosexuals. Now Xi Jinping has revived it – in the hope of reversing the decline in party discipline.
By Redaktion Table
Previous federal governments have tried out several variants to better coordinate digital policy. With the traffic light government, a different approach with distributed competences is now being chosen again, without a clear leader. Many changes are good, but whether the promised departure will succeed? Stefan Heumann explains the new distribution of competences in the federal government.
By Redaktion Table
For an equitable structural shift away from fossil fuels, the enormous gaps in climate protection measures must be closed – between what is necessary for a 1.5 degree path and what is currently being done and planned. Jörg Haas and Lili Fuhr of the Heinrich Böll Foundation provide an analysis.
By Redaktion Table
China's influence on reshaping global supply chains is growing with the pandemic. Concerned about losing access to key components from foreign countries, the People's Republic is increasingly relying on domestic innovation, manufacturing and demand. For multinationals whose investments or exports to China are considered critical by the Chinese government, it will become harder to do business in China as usual.
By Redaktion Table
Germany and France disagree on EU climate policy: from taxonomy to emissions trading to CO2 border adjustment. Götz Reichert of the Centre for European Policy (CEP) nevertheless sees potential for Franco-German compromises.
By Redaktion Table
The other member states have hidden behind the EU Commission and the ECJ for too long, criticises Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). This has only served to swell the crisis of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland. Now it's up to the governments to resolve the conflict.
By Redaktion Table
China wants to avoid a bad atmosphere among the population, and Xi Jinping himself advocates diligence instead of idleness. Nevertheless, the subversive term "tangping" has made it onto the list of Internet words of the year. It means "lying flat" and stands for a new social protest in the form of cultivated laziness. The young generation has had enough of constant strain and forced conformity to a competitive society. Johnny Erling shows how cartoonists pick up on the trend word in their drawings.
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Victor Warhem of the Centre de Politique Européenne in Paris analyses Republican candidate Valérie Pécresse's prospects of winning the upcoming presidential elections.
By Timo Landenberger
