The island of Taiwan has long been the most sensitive issue in US-China relations and is likely to take center stage in 2021. Taiwan is one of those potentially explosive topics that has never explode...Read More
In one of my posts in May 2020 I described the status of the relations between the USA and China as a Chilly War, just one step away from a Cold War. The two countries have meanwhile descended into a ...Read More
Photo: scene from the film by Arnold Fanck, Die Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü, 1929 on how the recent Chinese Mt. Everest expedition brought back memories of a meeting in 1992 with German “alpinis...Read More