Singapore

US Vice President Kamala Harris is visiting Singapore and Vietnam to promote her government's credibility in Southeast Asia following criticism of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Her advances are apparently taking root, as the People's Republic of China has lost a lot of trust with its uncompromising behavior in the South China Sea.

Von Marcel Grzanna

On her trip to Asia, America's Vice President Kamala Harris shows that the US will continue to be a strong partner in the region. As a consequence of the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, doubts about Washington's reliability had arisen.

Von Michael Radunski

Employees posted to China will be treated the same as locals starting in 2022 – for example, they will lose the opportunity to receive tax-free rent subsidies. The chambers of commerce are protesting. Does China not care about losing further attractiveness?

Von Finn Mayer-Kuckuk

The debacle over the grounded container ship in the Suez Canal has once again shown Beijing how risky it is to become too dependent on a transport route with a bottleneck. For China, that is even more so the 900-kilometer-long Strait of Malacca near Singapore, which measures only 2.7 kilometers at its narrowest point. Most of China's raw materials have to pass through this strait. That is why China has been trying for years to build alternative supply routes as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. These are mainly pipelines.

Von Frank Sieren