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National Security Strategy: China is 'value rival'

Six months later than announced, the Federal Government has adopted its National Security Strategy. The document titled "Integrated Security for Germany" aims to provide answers to global risks. In its stance towards China, it remains vague.

By Thomas Wiegold

In the web of 'influence operations'

German media see Chinese "influence operations" at work in many places. Many fear the infiltration of our democracy by the People's Republic; the chances of constructive cooperation are increasingly being overshadowed, and its advocates are being defamed.

By Experts Table.Briefings

230609 -- HOHHOT, June 9, 2023 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission CMC, delivers an important speech during a fact-finding trip to survey the work of border management and control and the development of border troops in north China s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 7, 2023. Xi extended greetings to border troops stationed in the region on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the CMC.  CHINA-INNER MONGOLIA-XI JINPING-BORDER TROOPS-SURVEY CN LixGang PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

The eternal Xi

Xi Jinping turns 70 years old this Thursday. He has been leading the People's Republic for more than a decade. His tenure would normally come to an end now. However, he continues. This raises several questions: Why doesn't Xi want to retire? Or perhaps he can't retire at all?

By Michael Radunski