The New Silk Road – reactions
The last part about China's new strategy deals with the world's view on the project.
Author - Christian Janisch
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The New Silk Road – the prerequisites
In the first part about the New Silk Road its dual concept was presented. This time it is all about theoretical and practical requirements for this project. The surprise coup In China's ambitious plans, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), founded in…
Money Monster
SPOILER WARNING! Money Monster, the latest Hollywood film about finance, provides us with an (exaggeratedly chauvinist) market guru (George Clooney) - probably inspired by the CNBC’s very vociferous market expert Jim Kramer - and his financial tip show Money Monster,…
A presidential candidate and two stirrers
Friday, May 20th 2016, 5pm, atViktor Adler market in the 10th district of Vienna. It's the final rally of presidential candidate Norbert Hofer. Interesting choice of location: relatively small for such an event, only two corners away from the localities of…
Legal – but necessary?
The Panama Papers: 11.5 million documents that shed light on a parallel society almost forgotten about, in times of the refugee crisis. Looking at 214000 shell companies and thousands of names, including many celebrities from sports, business and politics, one…
Journalists at risk of death
In the introduction Claus Reitan (freelance journalist) refers to the annual statistics of ‘Reporter ohne Grenzen’ (Reporters Without Borders), published on World Press Freedom Day: 57 journalists were killed worldwide, more than 500 arrested, 51 abducted. A key change in…
Financial disaster Hypo Alpe Adria
Much has been written about the largest bank failure in Austrian history. So much in fact, that it was and still is difficult for observers to find to find the red / black / blue thread within the jumble of…
Presidential election: the blue surprise egg
The pollsters’ astonishment was great. Not even in the autumn of 2015 in Vienna had they been as far off as in the first round of the presidential election. Yet another head-to-head race, which failed to materialize. Given the ever…
Resettlement: orderly help for persons in distress
Imagine: a politician applying for the office of chancellor enters the election with the promise, that, should he be elected, he would admit 25,000 refugees from Syria as part of a resettlement program. And - he wins the election. This happened…
The utopian idea of an equal-chance society
Volker Frey, Secretary General of the Litigation Association, explains that the association gives legal support to people filing lawsuits for discrimination (race, religion, disability). In twelve years, there have been about fifty lawsuits, most of which were won. Since no…
The webgiants as media platforms: risk or opportunity for journalism?
Samsung is cooperating with the Axel Springer-Verlag, Apple is hiring journalists, Facebook launches "Instant Articles", Google embraces Europe's publishers with 150 million euros - Journalistic content seem to gain importance in the business models of Webgiants. What does this mean for the mainstream media?
Incumbent office holders and AFD make the grade
The German state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt are fought, the results bring electoral victory for the current office holders and also resulted in an AfD now strongly represented in all three diets.