Bundeswehr strengthens cooperation with Israeli army
Germany also aims to learn from Israel’s approach to integrating reservists and women into the armed forces.
By Wilhelmine Stenglin
Germany also aims to learn from Israel’s approach to integrating reservists and women into the armed forces.
By Wilhelmine Stenglin
The permanent secretary at the Estonian Ministry of Defense Kaimo Kuusk warns against relying on immature defense technologies under public pressure and cites two start-ups as examples.
By Lisa-Martina Klein
Europe possesses more strategic leverage than is often assumed – from the weight of its consumer market and its role in critical supply chains to its influence on US government bonds. The challenge lies less in a lack of instruments than in deploying them coherently as a union of sovereign states.
By Philippa Sigl-Glöckner
In her first speech after winning the parliamentary election, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned of the military and economic threat posed by China. She also said she intends to push ahead with Japan’s rearmament.
By Ning Wang
During Friedrich Merz’s trip to China, Beijing will try to exploit transatlantic tensions, writes Cora Jungbluth of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. She advises him to deliberately invoke the very goals China itself has pursued for years: reducing dependencies and strengthening domestic capacities.
By Cora Jungbluth
Shortly before Chancellor Merz’s trip to China, the German Asia-Pacific Committee and the DIHK are calling for fair competitive conditions. Last year, China once again became Germany’s largest trading partner.
By Leonardo Pape
With the rollback of Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, duties on Chinese goods are falling by around 20%. The tariff gap between Chinese exporters and companies in other exporting countries is narrowing.
By Leonardo Pape
Ahead of his upcoming trip to China, Chancellor Merz faces the difficult task of striking a balance: addressing pressing issues while not further burdening the relationship.
By Leonardo Pape
ByteDance’s AI video tool Seedance 2.0 generates astonishingly realistic, cinematic-quality videos. The tool is being celebrated as a milestone not only in China. The technology is becoming part of everyday life faster than many expect, says AI expert Hans Uszkoreit – even if its training data remains in the dark.
By Fabian Peltsch