Deng Xiaoping, China's state and party leader from 1979 to 1997, was the only Chinese leader to admit mistakes publicly. Xi Jinping has never done so. But shortly before the Third Plenum, where the leadership sets the future course, it would be imperative to do so. It is the only way to pull the economy out of the pit of stagnation.
By Experts Table.Briefings
Xi Jinping is outraged because Biden and Baerbock publicly call him a dictator. China has different terms and a different understanding of what defines an autocrat. And yet, the controversy is about more than words – it is about the intellectual interpretation of political narratives and who can disseminate them internally and externally.
By Fabian Peltsch
The triumph of electric cars saw hydrogen in passenger cars as obsolete. But mobility requirements and energy planning in China push the technology back into the spotlight. And that globally.
By Christian Domke Seidel
