The MERICS China Podcast, brought to you by the Mercator Institute for China Studies, a show that analyses current affairs in China and the latest developments in EU-China relations.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 15 hours 1 minute
Jessica Batke: Small NGOs particularly vulnerable under new NGO law
May 11, 2018When China’s law on non-governmental organizations went into effect in early 2017, observers worried that many international NGOs would pull out as a result. Almost 18 months on, the picture is mixed as Jessica Batke of ChinaFile has found out. As part of ChinaFile’s NGO Project, she tracks the experiences with the new law and says some 350 groups have managed to register with the authorities. None is known to have pulled out so far. Yet, this could change in 2018...
Mareike Ohlberg: „Was marxistisch ist, bestimmt die Partei“
30. April 2018Karl Marx wäre am 5. Mai 200 Jahre alt geworden und wohl nirgendwo auf der Welt wird der Philosoph zu diesem Ehrentag so gefeiert wie in China. Sondersitzungen des Zentralkomitees, Ausstellungen, Vorträge, Sondersendungen – die Kommunistische Partei gibt sich größte Mühe Marx wieder cool zu machen...
China Dispute: Pekings wachsender Einfluss in Europa
29. März 2018Erkauft sich China mit Milliardeninvestitionen in Europa auch politischen Einfluss? Und wie kann die EU darauf reagieren? Das waren die zentralen Fragen einer Podiumsdiskussion des MERICS und des Global Public Policy Instituts (GPPi) am 13. März im Projektzentrum Berlin der Stiftung Mercator. Jan Weidenfeld (MERICS) und Thorsten Benner (GPPi), Mitautoren einer gemeinsamen Studie zum Thema, gaben Impulse...
Helena Legarda: China’s PLA looks set to step up global activities
March 8. 2018China wants to develop a “world class” military force that can “fight and win wars” by 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic. So it comes as little surprise that the defense budget just got another boost. Military spending will rise by 8.1 percent this year...
Gerda Wielander: Can the China Dream make people happy?
March 2, 2018In international rankings China does not appear to be a very happy place. In the latest World Happiness Report China ranked 79th out of 155 countries. Yet happiness as always played a key part in the Communist Party’s propaganda, and some Chinese analysts even predict that by 2030 China will be one of the happiest countries in the world...
China Dispute: China – Die neue Supermacht?
29. Januar 2018Längst ist die Volksrepublik China für die USA und Westeuropa zu einem ernsthaften wirtschaftlichen Konkurrenten geworden. Auch politisch geht China unter Präsident Xi Jinping mehr und mehr in die Offensive und gewinnt im Nahen Osten, in Afrika und Asien deutlich an Einfluss...
Ian Johnson über Religion und Werte in China
4. Januar 2018Religionsgemeinschaften erleben in China einen wahren Boom. Viele Menschen suchten Halt und Orientierung, argumentiert der Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisträger Ian Johnson in seinem neuen Buch „The Souls of China“. Jahrelang hat er dafür recherchiert und viel Zeit bei Christen, Buddhisten und Anhängern daoistischer Volksreligionen verbracht...
Akio Takahara: “Xi Jinping is an action-oriented person“
December 14, 2017At the 19th Communist Party Congress in October, Chinese president and party leader Xi Jinping proclaimed a “new era”. China was ready to become a global power and move to center stage, he said. What lies behind such claims? Has China taken advantage of the global leadership vacuum left by US president Trump? “Xi Jinping is an action-oriented person”, but his foreign policy record is mixed, says Akio Takahara of Tokyo University...
David Shambaugh & Willy Lam on the 19th Party Congress and China under Xi Jinping
October 19, 2017The 19th Party Congress is a “Xi Jinping Show” and China’s political system, under Xi’s rule, has lost much of its flexibility. That’s the rather blunt assessment of David Shambaugh of George Washington University in Washington D.C. Shortly before the start of the 19th Party Congress, Shambaugh visited Berlin and discussed China under Xi Jinping with Willy Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who was equally sober in his assessment of the state of the People’s Republic...
Willy Lam: "Xi Jinping has benefitted tremendously from the leadership vacuum left by Trump“
October 17, 2017The 19th Congress of the Communist Party kicks off in Beijing this week with the focus mainly on elite politics and personnel decisions in the top leadership. But the gathering of some 2300 delegates is also an opportunity to take stock of five years of Xi Jinping rule. Internationally, China plays a much more active and assertive role on the international stage...