Die Bundestagswahl von China aus gesehen, mit Kristin Shi-Kupfer
Die Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag vom 23. Februar wurden auch in China aufmerksam verfolgt. Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Professorin für Sinologie an der Universität Trier und Senior Associate Fellow bei MERI...
7 Mars 202521min
Kontrollierte Vielfalt – Chinas soziale Medien, mit Kristin Shi-Kupfer und Katja Drinhausen
Einige der weltweit größten und erfolgreichsten Social Media Plattformen sind in China – mehrere davon mit hunderten Millionen Nutzern. Sie sind Ort für soziale Interaktion, Unterhaltung, Nachrichten ...
4 Mars 202529min
"China in 25": Zölle, USA, China in Wahlprogrammen
„China in 25“ ist ein neues Podcast-Format von MERICS: In maximal 25 Minuten sprechen Mikko Huotari, Bernhard Bartsch und Claudia Wessling über aktuelle Entwicklungen in China im laufenden Jahr 2025. ...
19 Feb 202518min
DeepSeek and the upcoming AI Action Summit, with Rebecca Arcesati
The Chinese startup DeepSeek has rattled Silicon Valley’s confidence in the United States’ lead in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. DeepSeek’s first free Chatbot App became the most downloaded...
7 Feb 202536min
EU-China relations in 2025, with Abigaël Vasselier
Abigaël Vasselier, Director Policy & European Affairs at MERICS, just returned from a trip to Washington DC where she discussed transatlantic China policies with US counterparts. In this conversation ...
24 Jan 202530min
China’s economy in 2025, with Max Zenglein
China’s economy ended 2024 on a stronger-than-expected note. GDP expanded by 5.4 percent in the fourth quarter, bringing full-year growth to five percent – exactly as forecasted by the Chinese leaders...
23 Jan 202514min
China and the race for quantum leadership, with Antonia Hmaidi and Jeroen Groenewegen-Lau
China is vying for leadership in quantum research and applications. But it is still early days, and front runners and technical approaches have not yet been consolidated. Johannes Heller-John talks to...
10 Jan 202526min
Beijing's politics of history, with Daniel Leese
Chinese history – while containing a wealth of cultural, scientific and social achievements – has always been deeply political: China’s emperors tasked scholars to rewrite the past and document the pr...
20 Dec 202426min
