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Market leadership thanks to Beijing's White List

Implementing active industrial policy measures has gained increasing traction in the European Union in recent years, at least to some degree contemplating approaches now that China has already employed and perfected for the past decades. One of the focal points of the industrial policy debate in the EU is battery production. A good occasion for taking a look at how China has played its industrial policy game some years ago.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Niujie-Viertel in Peking während des Ramadan

Islam with Chinese characteristics

Since 2016, China's President Xi Jinping has been propagating a "Sinicization of religions". Religious communities are tolerated – but only if they are subordinate to socialism. Muslim communities are being "renovated" accordingly, for example, the Niujie district in Beijing or the Nanguan Mosque in the northwestern Chinese city of Yinchuan.

By Redaktion Table

Deutsche-Delegation-Taipeh

Presence in Taiwan – and a spiced-up quote

While German delegates make their appointments in Taipei, Beijing fulminates in its usual fashion about "interference". Meanwhile, a supposed quote from the head of the delegation, Klaus-Peter Willsch, made international rounds – but it was a retranslation of an overly enthusiastic translation into Mandarin.

By Redaktion Table

'There are still people who want to move to Hong Kong'

Johannes Hack, President of the German Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, criticizes the uncertainty caused by the Covid policy of the last couple of years. Mainland China is building the walls around itself higher and higher. On the one hand, this could again strengthen Hong Kong's status. But because foreigners from Hong Kong can no longer travel freely to China, the island becomes increasingly unattractive. The interview was conducted by Ning Wang.

By Ning Wang