Deutsche Bahn's planned purchase of Chinese electric buses has been met with sharp criticism from the German Railway and Transport Union (EVG). “~We expect the federal government to take the fight for German jobs seriously.” www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

"...zeigt, dass es richtig war, auf den di­plo­ma­tischen Affront im Oktober mit einer demonstrativen Absage der Reise zu reagieren. Auch wenn China in einer deutlich stärkeren Position als Europa ist, zahlt sich selbstbewusstes Auftreten aus." www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Wir haben großes Interesse daran, immer wieder Verständnis füreinander zu entwickeln. So auch in unserem – mit Omid Nouripour, Nicolas Zippelius & Ralf Stegner – sehr guten Gespräch mit Liu Haixing, dem Leiter der Internationalen Abteilung der Kommunistischen Partei, die China entscheidend prägt.

Cars 🇨🇳 can't sell at home: "boom in gasoline-powered exports is driven by the same EV subsidies and policies that wrecked the China businesses of automakers including VW, GM and Nissan by underwriting scores of Chinese EV makers and igniting a devastating price war" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI. www.aspi.org.au/repo...

📚 ThinkPeace #3 is out now! The paper sheds light on the widespread and systematic, yet largely underreported crime of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian authorities.

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The wonderful @oonahathaway.bsky.social does not hold back: our international legal order is at risk. And she has some proposals... www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

🟢 Wir laden ein zur Buchvorstellung 📖 "Das Versagen – Eine investigative Geschichte der deutschen Russlandpolitik" I 📅 Mi, 10. Dezember 2025 I 🕕 19.30 – 21.00 Uhr I 📍 Schumannstr. 8, 10117 Berlin oder im Livestream 🎬 I Infos & Anmeldung ⬇️ calendar.boell.de/de/event/das...

Can China lead the world on climate action? In a 6-part special report in this week's Economist, Gabriel Crossley and I explore how China became the world's green energy superpower and why it has reached a tipping point in its approach to climate change www.economist.com/special-repo...

"The non-colonials can decolonize but in a way that does not challenge the decolonization of the ex-colonials." resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal... Interesting read on "the strategic use of customary international law and ancient literature in the South China Sea dispute"

"China has offset the decline from America with breathtaking speed. Shipments to other parts of the world have surged this year, (...) Chinese exports are on track to reach another record this year." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Deutschland auf dem Weg ins Industriemuseum? Deutliche Kritik von EWE-Chef Stefan Dohler an der Energiepolitik der Bundesregierung. Bremsen könne keine Strategie zum Überholen im globalen Wettbewerb sein kann. www.fr.de/wirtschaft/f...

Abhängigkeiten abbauen kostet Geld. Aber Sicherheit und Unabhängigkeit sind nun mal keine kostenlosen Güter, man muss in sie investieren. Nach der Erfahrung mit Russland sollte es für uns selbstverständlich sein, das zu tun. www.welt.de/politik/deut...

Auch wenn im Handelskonflikt der USA mit China alle kurz durchatmen: Im Dreieck Trump, Xi & EU dürfen wir nicht untergehen. Wir müssen als EU nicht nur als Anhängsel der USA auftreten, sondern eine viel eigenständigere Politik machen, sage ich der tagesschau www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro...

Party-to-party talks between Germany’s Social Democrats and China’s Communist Party are a relic from another era. But SPD Vice Chancellor/Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil is keeping the tradition alive. He risks becoming a pawn in Beijing’s divide and rule game

ASEAN Regional Press Review, October 2025 th.boell.org/en/media/fil... To subscribe to our press review and to see archives from year 2019 to 2025, check out the link below 👇 bit.ly/4nuOla6

Far as I can tell, the five-year plan recommendations are the first time that the Central Committee has explicitly called for electrification of energy use. The previous five-year plans only had it in the energy sector plan, so elevating it to the top level is significant.

The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore what it means to come of age in China today, at a moment when the paths to adulthood are increasingly uncertain, yet the pressure to succeed remains relentless. Download the whole issue at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/10/27/b...

EU and China parliaments aim to hold their first talks in 7 years on October 16 – SCMP: ‘It is expected that this meeting will set in motion a biannual exchange, with MEPs set to travel to Beijing in May 2026 for a return leg.’

Read our partner organisations’ reports: InterSecLab interseclab.org/research/ Amnesty www.amnesty.org/en/documents... Justice For Myanmar www.justiceformyanmar.org/stories/silk... Follow The Money www.ftm.eu/articles/how...

Re China-EU Summit: Any language that differentiates between "big guys" in the international society 中欧都是国际社会中的“大个子” (and, by extention, small guys) should be viewed as problematic - because it runs counter to the foundational principles of international law. news.cctv.cn/2025/07/24/A...

Charles Michel shows his ignorance by blaming the lack of a joint statement at today’s EU-China summit on EU disunity. In fact it is a sign of progress (and unity) that empty joint statements are no longer accepted by the EU. www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Tianjin Summit to be held from August 31 to Sept 1 Xi: SCO should unite & lead the Global South in building a more just and equitable global governance system, pooling immense strength for the building of a community with a shared future for humanity

"China will host the third China-Central Asia Summit in 2027" ➡️2027 will be the 10 year anniversary of the first BRI Forum, therefore it's not unlikely that a number of such regional summits could serve as backdrop to convene another big BRI forum. We'll see.. www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/z...

"...what China wants is a frozen conflict, giving it maximum leverage over all groups." China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar www.economist.com/asia/2025/06...

acceleration in recent years is really quite astonishing

What the Hong Kong government means when they use "lawful". We need to make sure we remember. hongkongfp.com/2025/06/03/a...

Carrots in the form of planes and sticks in the form of a rare earth controls. Pretty transparent message from Beijing before a July summit with the EU. Will Europe play this coercion game? The Merz-Trump meeting tomorrow has taken on added importance

"A senior European official involved in the negotiations said “dairy overall” was a “no-go” area."

The Chinese government has established an international mediation organisation located in Hong Kong, with Beijing hoping it will rival the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the world’s leading conflict resolution body www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

China’s carbon emissions may have peaked www.economist.com/china/2025/0... "China’s power grid was set up around coal... China also needs reforms to its power market to make sure clean power is efficiently dispatched to regions where it is needed. The coal lobby... is trying to delay the reforms."

Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better www.economist.com/asia/2025/05... --> "According to some estimates, this industry dwarfs the global illicit-drug trade in value."

🟢 New discussion paper | 𝗕𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆? 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗨 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, by @antonmoeller.bsky.social & Georg McCutcheon 👉 eu.boell.org/en/2025/05/2... #ReArmEurope #Readiness2030 @boell.de @eib.org @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu

Wir können es uns nicht leisten, unsere Abhängigkeit von China nicht zu reduzieren. Wir sollten deshalb endlich mit einer Politik des De-Risking beginnen. Unklar ist, ob die USA unter Trump diesen Weg wirklich mitgehen wollen. t.co/u06N3XfvMG

calendar.boell.de/en/event/sou... ➡️ Online event Wednesday, 04. June 2025 9:30 am – 11:00 am Elections in South Korea Geopolitical dynamics and domestic course-setting

🟢 Webinar | 🇪🇺 🇮🇳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨-𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹: 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 📅 Wednesday 28 May 2025 🕑 10:30-12:00 CEST 🔗 More info & registration calendar.boell.de/en/event/cha... Organised by @boell.de New Delhi office & the Council for Strategic and Defense Research

Ivan Kanapathy, the U.S. NSC's senior director for Asia remains, but his China-focused team has been let go. FT reports that the restructuring was described by one insider as a "liquidation. www.ft.com/content/3a21...

The EU just hit TikTok over transparency failures but still hasn't acted on X. If Brussels wants the DSA to have teeth, it can't keep stalling. My latest in The Strategist: www.aspistrategist.o...

Heartbroken bsky.app/profile/boel...

Mit Antonie Nord verlieren wir eine hochgeschätzte Kollegin, die fest mit der Stiftung und dem grünen Umfeld verbunden war. Zuletzt leitete sie mit viel politischem & strategischem Verständnis und immer empathisch den Bereich Internationale Zusammenarbeit. 1/2

Good discussion on a range of important topics relating to China's environmental politics in both the domestic 🇨🇳 and the international 🌏 realm. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpA... Jointly organized by Heinrich Böll Foundation & Berlin Contemporary China Network & Dialogue.Earth

9/9 China's trade surplus, in other words, is a structural problem. What Dombrovskis asks in the name of "self restraint" is actually a major voluntary restructuring of the Chinese economy. I think that is unlikely to happen except over many years and even decades.

Be proud. Proud of whom you love. Proud of who you are. Proud of who you are becoming. Because your journey is your power. Always remember: Europe is your ally. I am your ally. This week and every week. Be proud. Always.

If you ask me why the "Global South" does not see Germany/Europe as a partner & why so few actors there accept the proposition that "systemic conflict with China" is about defending legal norms, moral principles & values - then these two screenshots will likely be part of the answer for a long time.

"If our automotive industry wants to build on old successes, it has to become more Chinese." (Dudenhöffer in Südkurier today.) It will be crucial to differentiate btw becoming "more Chinese" by emulating & cooperating👍 vs. integrating & licensing👎. Amples examples for both exist. But crucially:

BASF names 6 Asian countries "in addition to China" to expand its presence. These "7 countries are expected to account for around 80% of global chemical growth by 2035." ➡️Sounds like diversification, but "in addition" might do a lot of work here. epaper.handelsblatt.com/epaper/hande...

Schon jetzt gibt es einen Tsunami an Billigprodukten aus China und Trumps Politik verschärft den Trend. Wir brauchen endlich die EU-Zollreform, die schon zu lange im Rat feststeckt, und ad hoc Maßnahmen, sonst wird der stationäre Handel in unseren Städten den Bach runter gehen!

"China will firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core" Vs. "China has also begun paying [the UN] late. Last year its money arrived on December 27th, four days before the end of the financial year. Only North Korea paid later." www.economist.com/internationa...