Making their marks: Germans don't let politics interfere with China trade

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Germany waxed ecstatic over Chinese President Jiang Zemin's successful visit on July 11-15, 1995, resulting in German investments worth at least $1.72 billion. Leaders in Bonn carefully avoided pressing Jiang on human rights issues, in the news after China's detention of US citizen Harry Wu. The new trade deals strengthen Germany's status as China's top trade partner in Europe; total trade doubled from 1990 to 1994, reaching $18.4 billion. Debate among human-rights figures centered on the likely effects of economic reform in China.

China, Foreign investments, Chinese foreign relations

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Wasting away: Pyongyang's recycling efforts spark concern

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South Korea has protested to the Bonn Environment Ministry about the sending of 95,000 tonnes of household plastic waste to Pyongyang in North Korea by German company Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Kunstoff-Recycling. Although shipments have now stopped due to the availability of new recycling capacity in Germany, plans by Taiwan to send nuclear waste to the North have further outraged Seoul. There are concerns that some waste may simply be dumped, and that pollution arising from the plastic waste could affect the South too.

Hazardous Waste Collection, Trucking, except local, Trucking of Hazardous Waste, Trucking, Environmental aspects, Transportation, North Korea, Hazardous wastes, Hazardous waste transportation

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Tobacco road

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German efforts to repatriate a claimed 40,000 Vietnamese living there illegally have encountered roadblocks despite an agreement signed in 1995. Germany claims Vietnam is reneging, so only 24 of a planned 7,500 people have been returned so far in 1996, and Bonn threatens to suspend a promised $67 million in aid. Vietnam disputes the 40,000 figure and complains the agreement is too complex and was forced on it. Complicating the issue is a series of gangland murders of Vietnamese cigarette smugglers in Germany.

Political aspects, Vietnam, Crime, Vietnamese foreign relations, Refugees, Vietnamese, Vietnamese refugees, Vietnamese (Southeast Asian people), Vietnamese in foreign countries, Overseas Vietnamese

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