In July 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) published a signed article titled “To Make the World a Better Place” in the German newspaper Die Welt ahead of his state visit to Germany and attendance at the G20 Hamburg Summit. The article, distributed by Xinhua News Agency (新華社), outlined the bilateral cooperation between China and […]
Die Welt is a German national daily broadsheet established in 1946 in Hamburg by the British occupying forces. It is published today by Axel Springer, the multinational mass and online media company based in Berlin. The publication covers domestic and international news, politics, business, culture, and opinion journalism. It describes its editorial stance as “liberal […]
Germany ranks among the world’s stronger press freedom environments, and its Chinese-language media landscape reflects that openness, encompassing newspapers with documented ties to party-state entities alongside independent outlets founded by dissidents and post-Tiananmen émigrés. Content-sharing agreements between Chinese state media and German outlets have drawn public scrutiny, and transnational repression of Chinese journalists on German soil has prompted warnings from press freedom organizations. Germany’s deep economic ties with the People’s Republic of China, consistently among Germany’s top trading partners in recent years, add a layer of political complexity to how the country responds to these questions.
On July 5, 2017, the German newspaper Die Welt published a signed article by Xi Jinping (習近平) called “To Make the World a Better Place” (共同促進世界更加美好) ahead of the Chinese leader’s state visit to Germany. The article coincided with the 45th anniversary of diplomatic relations established in 1972 between the two countries. Xi framed the […]
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