The CEO of Stellantis, the car group behind Opel, Peugeot and Fiat, is afraid that Europeans will buy Chinese cars en masse in the future. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, he called on the European Union to better protect the European car industry against emerging competition […]
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Germany is also introducing a mandatory corona test for travellers from China. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced this on Thursday. Travellers from China will at least have to have a rapid antigen test before leaving for Germany, the SPD politician said. Germany, like Belgium, therefore follows the recommendation of the […]
The US Senate has unanimously voted to ban the popular app TikTok from the work phones of US government officials. According to the bill’s initiator, the Chinese app is “a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party”. However, the bill still has to pass the House of Representatives before the […]
A new US law targeting forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region is having a major impact on trade flows between China and the United States. For example, Chinese solar panels and other equipment to generate solar energy have been piling up on the US border since the law was passed. […]
Medical technology company Philips sold less in the second quarter. The company suffered a lot from the lockdowns in China and supply problems for parts and materials. Because of this headwind, Philips is also becoming more negative about this year as a whole. The company expects comparable sales to […]
China continues to ramp up investment in solar energy to increase the amount of renewable energy in the country. In the first four months of this year, investments in solar energy tripled. According to experts, this will continue for the rest of the year. Between January and April, the […]
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet will visit China, including the northwestern region of Xinjiang, for nearly a week on Monday. According to several Western powers, genocide is committed there against the original population, the Uyghurs related to Turks. At the invitation of the Chinese government, Chilean ex-President […]
Beijing residents are increasingly concerned about the coronavirus. In the Chinese capital, groceries are being bought en masse, while the approximately 3.5 million residents of a large district have been told that they must be tested several times. There is a fear among the population that Beijing, like Shanghai, […]
Facebook mother Meta has paid a consultancy firm to set up a campaign against TikTok. Salient detail: many of the ‘dangers’ that the company highlighted about TikTok are said to have originated from Facebook itself. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has traditionally kept the competition […]
One of the two flight recorders of the plane that crashed in southern China on Monday has been located, a spokesperson for the Chinese aviation authority said. The data in the black box may provide insight into the cause of the crash. The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plunged […]
