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The impressions from our green China trip showed us that the images and reports of China that our media had previously conveyed to us were far from consistent with our own impressions. We visited 14 places in 12 days, booming cities and villages in the countryside, minority regions and poor districts. Nevertheless, the impression is that it is not the People's Republic of China that is a developing country, but Germany and Europe that are a developing area. Enormous efforts in the field of environmental and climate protection and changes in a country that was poor until recently in a very short space of time can serve as a model and orientation for our economic development and an incentive to actively counteract the looming economic decline of our economic area in competition with the new high-tech country China with its extremely cheap products by our standards..

Texts are posted here that are intended to help gain a more differentiated picture of China on all of our critical questions, especially on human rights, aspects of China's geopolitical activities or the Taiwan conflict. These are intended to help enable constructive cooperation rather than opposition and confrontation in times of the global climate crisis.

Jürgen Kurz, the initiator of the "Green Journey" to China in spring 2024, has presented a stimulating paper on this topic: