Germany's Merkel prods China on rights
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday pressed China to improve human rights and take on greater international responsibilities as its global influence grows.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is  expected to push for tougher global action against climate  change and ending human rights abuses in Darfur in meetings  with top Chinese officials on Monday.
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German Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶der arrived in Beijing on Monday for a three-day visit focusing on expanding trade ties and the European Unionâs ban on arms sales to China.
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Beijing, Dec 6 : China and Germany today signed 22 cooperative documents here to boost bilateral relations and trade cooperation after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder held wide-ranging talks and established a &#39;hot line
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Israel in March and during the trip mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state, her spokesman said on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Chinese premier Wen Jiabao described reports of Chinese hackers breaking into German computers as a matter of "grave concern" and said Monday that his country will cooperate with Germany to resolve the matter. Jiabao's comments, made during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Beijing, were prompted by a report published two days earlier in the German news magazine Der Spiegel claiming that Chinese hackers had been able to infect German government computers with spyware. Merkel said that for Chinese relations with industrialized countries to move ahead, everyone needs to "respect a set of game rules" and "protect intellectual property rights." Security experts from Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and Federal Data Protection Office discovered Trojan horse programs in computers used in several government ministries, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Economics and the Research and Development Ministry, as well as Merkel's office, the report in Der Spiegel said. Although the first Trojan horse software was detected in May, there are continued attempts to sneak spyware into government computers via the Internet, according to Spiegel. Security experts monitoring data traffic were able to stop the transmission of a 160G-byte file from a German ministry to China, but no one would say if hackers succeeded in stealing other files, the magazine reported. BSI and the Federal Data Protection Office declined to comment. A spokesman at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, while declining to comment on the Spiegel story specifically, said that the federal government, in general, is aware of increased efforts to steal information from computers in the private and public sectors. "We are making a huge effort to ensure that government systems remain protected from outside attacks," the spokesman said. "So far, we've been able to avoid any damage." (Information from pool reporters located in Beijing was used in this report.)
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Chancellor Merkel gets high marks as Germany prepares to lead the EU next year and host the G-8 summit.
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Germany and China share common views on many international issues and can make important contributions to securing peace and stability in the world, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said.
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China, a frequent target of overseas human rights organisations, has promised to improve the treatment of its prisoners, especially those on death row, state press reported Monday.
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China has summoned Germany&#39;s ambassador in Beijing to discuss Chancellor Angela Merkel&#39;s decision to grant the Dalai Lama an unprecedented meeting this month, the German foreign ministry said Friday.
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Visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder delivers a speech at the foundation ceremony of the new joint-venture factory of Sino-German Benz-Daimlerchrysler automobile manufacturer in the Economic Development Zone of Beijing in China&#39;s capital on Dec.
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(InfoWorld) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on politicians, business leaders, and researchers to cooperate more closely in helping the country secure a leading position in the global IT sector and pledged money to support collaborative efforts. Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, Merkel said communications and telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights such as the automotive and chemical sectors and collaborate more intensively in the area of software engineering. Already today more than half of the innovations in the automobile industry are based on software. The Chancellor pledged â¬1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) in grants over the next three years to support innovation in Germany's IT sector. The funds will come from the federal government's â¬15 billion high-tech investment program approved earlier this year. But Merkel was quick to add that in the future, industry grants should be carefully targeted and not simply "poured out of a watering can." Germany has seen its strong tradition of technological innovation steadily wane over the years, due in part to high labor costs that have deterred investment and declining university standards that have caused a brain drain. The country claims a number of IT achievements, including the Zuse, seen by some as the first freely programmable computer, and the MP3 audio compression algorithm. SAP Chief Executive OfficerÂ Henning Kagermann was blunt in his assessment of Germany's IT standing. Although the communications and telecommunications sectors combined employ around 800,000 people and generate annual revenue of around â¬150 billion, making it the country's largest industrial sector, "in a global comparison, we are not a leader and, even worse, we are falling behind," he said. In addition to funds, the government initiative calls for immigration policies designed to attract talented researchers from around the world, and grants to keep gifted students in the country.
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A planned rail freight service between Germany and China has been backed by six countries, Chinese media says.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Monday called for an end to a 15-year-old European arms embargo on China imposed after the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, as the two countries signed contracts worth &#36;2.1 billion for Airbus jets and other industrial goods.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to push for tougher global action against climate change and ending human rights abuses in Darfur in meetings with top Chinese officials on Monday.
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Germany will use its presidency of the European Union next year to launch new efforts aimed at helping secure peace in the Middle East, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a regular video podcast on ...Comment