DiDi is the top dog in the Chinese market for ride services. However, just before its planned IPO, the authorities put the company through the mill. Defiantly, DiDi is expanding its international presence. Its base, however, remains its home country. Here, the company wants to profit from increased mobility and urbanization.
By Ning Wang
The tone in China's fiercely competitive technology sector is getting rougher. The struggle for dominance and pluralism in the Chinese network world is shifting to the corporate level – the conflicts between Bytedance and the Internet giant Tencent are an exemplary lesson in the distribution battles.
By Christiane Kuehl
The G7 wants to establish a new global infrastructure initiative. The Western states are also focusing on human rights. This is intended to set them apart from China. Beijing's New Silk Road is all too often based on the exploitation of Chinese workers. The problem is that cheap labor is a competitive advantage for China that the G7 initiative can hardly make up for.
By Nico Beckert
Anyone who wants to understand today's China must understand Deng Xiaoping. The gap between rich and poor, how a communist party can remain in force in one of the most capitalist countries in the world, the crisis of values in society – all this is related to him.
By Felix Lee
According to a joint study by the research institute Merics and the Rhodium Group, mergers and acquisitions by Chinese companies in the EU continue to decline. This is partly because of the Chinese state. Foreign acquisitions are no longer as desirable as they were five years ago. But EU countries, for their part, are also increasingly wary and call for closer scrutiny of deals. The political climate is doing its bit to scare off investors.
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China's EV market is growing rapidly. The People's Republic is facing the question of how to deal with the increasing amount of used batteries earlier than other countries. This is because old batteries are extremely harmful to the environment. The powerful Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has now held the manufacturers responsible once again and calls for more attention to recycling.
By Frank Sieren
The new law against punitive measures puts foreign companies in a quandary. They face drastic consequences in the second-largest economy if they comply with possible sanctions. To eliminate the risks in the long term, they would have to create completely independent value chains. That is economically risky. Yet the worst-case scenario also offers opportunities.
By Marcel Grzanna
Bitcoin is a natural enemy of China's financial controls, which are as seamless as possible. After the ban on crypto trading platforms four years ago, the power is now being cut off to miners in more and more provinces. Now, many companies flee the People's Republic and look for new locations abroad.
By Redaktion Table
A report is circulating in the US media that the Taishan nuclear power plant is about to be shut down due to safety problems. China insists that the situation is under control. In fact, radioactive gases are inevitable during reactor operation. However, they should not escape in large quantities into the plant or the surrounding area.
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China's skyscrapers are among the most sustainable in the world. The developers are still primarily state-owned. But now Beijing is forcing private builders to meet higher sustainability standards as well. This will have consequences because most of the world's new skyscrapers are currently built in China.
By Frank Sieren
