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Provinces back on growth track

The economic targets of the individual provinces for 2023 show a clear focus on growth. The majority are aiming for growth of six percent or more. They place an emphasis on promoting consumption and innovation. Foreign companies will also be able to benefit at the local level.

By Experts Table.Briefings

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The Global Security Initiative: China's new world order

China's new security concept, the Global Security Initiative (GSI), envisages new ground rules for a world order that is not based on the principle of the strongest. The concept may not be taken seriously by the West, but there is interest in the Global South and other emerging countries.

By Frank Sieren

230220 -- BUDAPEST, Feb. 20, 2023  -- Hungary s Prime Minister Viktor Orban meets with Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 19, 2023. Hungarian Prime Minister s Office/Handout via  HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-PM-WANG YI-MEETING Xinhua PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

Eager anticipation of Beijing's peace initiative

China's chief diplomat Wang Yi has announced a peace initiative for Ukraine - and is being met with skepticism. He is expected to visit Moscow next. To be credible, a trip to Kyiv would have to follow. For now, Ukraine still has the necessary trust in the People's Republic.

By Michael Radunski

230210 -- BEIJING, Feb. 10, 2023 -- This screen image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Feb. 9, 2023 shows Shenzhou-15 taikonaut Fei Junlong conducting extravehicular activities EVAs out of the space station lab module Wentian. The Shenzhou-15 taikonauts on board the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station completed their first spacewalk at 12:16 a.m. Beijing Time on Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.  EyesonSciCHINA-SHENZHOU-15-TAIKONAUTS-EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITIES-COMPLETION CN LiuxFang PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN

Space race

China and the USA are engaged in a race for supremacy in space. The moon could become contested territory. The USA fears that the People's Republic could lay claim to it, as it did in the South China Sea.

By Frank Sieren