One in 2020 from the National Bureau of Statistics in China, where influencers gained prominence earlier than in the West, estimated its contribution to the economy at $210bn, equivalent to 1.4% of GDP.

On March 29th news reports surfaced that China’s paternalistic authorities are planning new curbs on how much money internet users can spend on tipping their favourite influencers, how much those influencers can earn from fans, and what they are allowed to post.

For example, Switzerland and China are working to create favourable conditions for smaller private-sector actors to access the digital market in order to avoid excessive market concentration

for example to what extent the use of technology provided by Chinese firms could endanger Swiss companies’ proprietary knowledge or competitive advantage

If the minister of foreign affairs aspires to play a central role in German China policy, in-depth reform of the Federal Foreign Office would need to be implemented first. For instance, steps to make the Federal Foreign Office fit for dealing with China could include the following: First, generating and nurturing China specialists, including appointing external special advisers (in a long-term, not only ad-hoc, capacity). Currently, the Federal Foreign Office primarily relies on generalists and a lot of knowledge gets lost due to the rotation principle. Second, the ministry would need to expand financial and personal resources. The workload for German diplomats has increased significantly over the past years, while the necessary means to face those challenges remain limited. The ministry could also, third, introduce a more strategic outlook for the Federal Foreign Office altogether and, fourth, create a special representative for China who coordinates all China-related activities in the federal government and directly reports to the foreign minister.

Of the big three vendors, only Huawei is not a member, citing its belief that Open RAN systems cannot perform as well as the company's proprietary systems

79 telephone calls with leaders of foreign countries and international organizations, and attended 40 major diplomatic events via video link.

As in other policy fields, authorities in Beijing have taken more than one page from the EU’s book. Yet enforcement comes with Chinese characteristics.

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Culturally and politically, China has always endorsed the equilibrium among nations in international system in the name of great harmony. Henry Kissinger once said, according to the Chinese tradition, “Great Harmony requires keeping the existing cosmic order in joint and maintain the equilibrium between man, heaven and nature.”

along with this digital space some countries view outer space as an arena for confrontation we deem it to be a dangerous trend and propose to prohibit placement of weapons in outer space and the threat or use of force in it the relevant russian chinese draft treaty remains on the table of the conference on disarmament

We reiterate our unshakable support to the “one China” principle and oppose any attempt to harm the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the People’s Republic of China, as well as anyinterference in its internal affairs.

I dream of an agreement between the United States and China, an agreement facing the world, not focusing on competing but cooperating to pushthe world forward. A world that largely depends on the determination of the leaders, particularly the G-20, which I call to action so that we can understand the interdependence between self-interest and solidaritywhich are,as of today, two sides of the same coin

Yet I fear our world is creeping towards two different sets of economic, trade, financial, and technology rules, two divergent approaches in the development of artificial intelligence—and ultimately two different military and geo-political strategies.

At the same time, it will be impossible to address dramatic economic and development challenges whilethe world’s two largest economies are at odds with each other.

Much of the other work involves setting standards for datasets that are not uniform between different entities and provinces. This would allow them to be more easily used on new data exchanges such as the one recently launched in Beijing that aims to allow companies to trade anonymous proprietary data -- effectively a pilot for a national data trading system