I think of Germany in the night, and all my sleep is put to flight (Heinrich Heine, Germany: A Winter’s Tale) My poor country is not only facing economic decline and grappling with the return of fascism, it is now also enduring public humiliation at
Thank goodness that spectacle is finally over. The strange and often absurd election drama in the so-called “greatest nation on earth” has come to an end—for now. In China, the quantitative mechanism of elections isn’t a big deal. It would be wrong to say it’s
In his book “The Art of Defeat,” historian Holger Afflerbach examines the history of surrender and efforts to contain violence in war. But what about the “art of defeat” in present-day conflicts? Mr. Afflerbach, it seems that the art of defeat, which you have described
The following summary of the analyses of the 20th Party Congress is an English translation of a post by Wolfgang Hirn. To all those who know German, we recommend subscribing to his free and independent newsletter ChinaHirn, which is all about China – not least
Anyone who has been following the current reporting on the Chinese Communist Party Congress or the possible involvement of Cosco in the Port of Hamburg will have an inkling that German-Chinese relations are not in good shape. These days, China is all too quickly identified
The new German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently prescribed a course of “dialogue and toughness” for China. Bad cop and good cop in one person, a bit of Habermas here, a bit of Carl Schmitt there, so to speak. German tabloid BILD did not
AK: Markus, how do you explain the resurgence of what is called ‘the lab-leak thesis’ in the Western media, which was already believed to be dead? Politically. And mass media-wise. These are the two factors one needs to look at. And of course one must
MH: Professor Brown, thanks a lot for agreeing to this interview. Your time budget must be rather small. May I ask what you are currently working on? Two projects. One is a selection of excerpts from key writers from outside China who have written about
On Tuesday, the 3rd of May 2016, at 11:45 a page on Facebook called Infinite Entropy shared a picture of an unshaven leg along with a poem. The poem currently has 44,100 likes and 10,800 shares. “When a man tells me I’m beautiful I don’t believe