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Democrats and Republicans launch new sanctions over human rights violations in China. No products are to be imported from Xinjiang in the future. The USA wants to initiate further sanctions against China because of the oppression of the Muslim Uighur minority. The US House of Representatives passed a law banning imports from China's Xinjiang region for forced labor. The House of Representatives approved the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act with an overwhelming 428-1 vote. For the law to go into effect it has yet to pass the Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden. Republicans are accusing Democrats of delaying the law because it would complicate President Joe Biden's renewable energy agenda. The White House and the Democrats in Congress deny this. Xinjiang supplies most of the world's solar cell materials. For years, human rights groups accuse China, the suppression of the Uyghur in Xinjiang region before. The Beijing government has denied allegations that China ha...

The conflicts between China and the US are not easy to resolve, but perhaps they can be managed. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping's summit was a start. After all, they are talking to each other. Don't wait for a dangerous crash between China and the United States, which in the case of Taiwan can happen at any time. It was only a video summit at which the screens were switched on for Joe Biden in the White House and for Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People on Monday evening (in Beijing it was already Tuesday morning). But they both took three and a half hours. This is good news after all, because a lot of conflict has accumulated between the two most powerful states in the world. The presidents have not met personally since Biden took office. Xi Jinping did not leave his country after the outbreak of the Corona crisis. The G20 summit in Rome and the world climate conference in Glasgow also took place without him. But not only the head of state and party makes himself scarce. China...

So far, US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping have only talked on the phone. Now they have met for the first time by video - and admonished each other. US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi Jinping started their eagerly awaited video summit with mutual reminders. Biden warned of a confrontation between the world's two largest economies. It is their mutual responsibility "to ensure that competition between our countries does not degenerate into conflict, whether intentional or unintentional," he said. It takes "common sense guidelines," Biden said. Xi called on the US president, whom he referred to as "my old friend", to work together more closely. China and the US should respect each other, peacefully coexist and cooperate, as the state media quoted him. Both countries should also live up to their international responsibilities. It is the first personal, albeit virtual, encounter between the two presidents since Biden took o...

The world climate summit is in the second week of negotiations, but not only activists are skeptical. Heads of government also fear the joint final declaration. Accompanied by mass protests, the World Climate Conference in Glasgow is entering its second and decisive week. Several politicians, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Acting Chancellor Angela Merkel, have acknowledged the urgency of the round of negotiations. However, many climate activists remain skeptical that the representatives of around 200 countries in the world will actually take effective steps at their summit to stop global warming. By Friday afternoon, the participating states want to have a so-called rule book ready in Glasgow, which specifies how the Paris climate protection agreement of 2015 is to be implemented in concrete terms. With this, the states hope to reduce global warming to well below two degrees compared to the pre-industrial age. Progress in the first week of the conference would have ...

The G20 states are sticking to the Paris Agreement at the end of the summit. Experts criticize the final report. Times and goals are imprecise and watered down. The 20 largest economic powers ( G20 ) have committed to complying with the Paris Climate Agreement. According to information from the German Press Agency, the final communiqué of the G20 summit in Rome states that the G20 states are still committed to the 2015 targets of keeping global warming "well below two degrees and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5 Degree limit ". On the other hand, it remained unclear what specific measures the federal states intend to take in order to achieve the goals. Activists had hoped for a strong signal from the G20 for the world climate conference, which began this Sunday in Glasgow. The group of economic powers plays an important role because it is responsible for around 80 percent of global greenhouse gases. Activists were disappointed with the draft. While at the beginning the yea...

Papal audience, G20 meeting, climate summit: Joe Biden's second big trip takes him back to Europe. But this time the US president brings his own problems with him. In the summer, when Joe Biden made the rounds in Europe, a lot was even easier: "America is back", so don't worry, we'll get it done - that's how the halfway new US president was able to feel on his first trip abroad smile through the program, it all looked good in the pictures, and he said it often enough. At the time, the aim was to clean up the fidelity damage of the Trump years with the Western allies, to cultivate the image, to reclaim the old leadership role in the world. Everything was about a new beginning, and despite all the skepticism, the joy about it was definitely noticeable on this side of the Atlantic. Now Biden is back in Europe, especially for the weekend G20 meeting in Rome and then the climate summit in Glasgow. But apart from a private audience with the Pope this Friday, it shou...