Good morning, dear readers,
It is almost an outstretched middle finger that India’s prime minister recently sent to the US President. Donald Trump is said to have undertaken four attempts in recent weeks to reach Narendra Modi, but he didn’t even go to the phone. So the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” reported.
Modi preferred to travel to China, where since yesterday and today the summit of the Shanghaier Organization for Cooperation (SOZ) takes place. It is an astonishing visit to China, the first in seven years, after all, Chinese-Indian relationships have actually been tense since in 2020 there was a fatal collision along the controversial Himalayan border.
But that of Trump India has been outraged – and could lead to the fact that the currently fifth largest economic power is based on sustainable people elsewhere, more precisely: on the world’s second largest economic power. They are partners, not rivals, said Chinese ruler Xi Jinping after meeting together on Sunday.
China, India, Russia and Co.: What else do we have to report?
Even if the SOZ alliance has not always found a common line in the past: for XI, which is staged as a world ruler, it is a powerful sign that he is at the meeting in the northern Chinese port city Tianjin can also present with India at his side.
Again and again the member countries emphasize the goal of a “multipolar” world order, they complain about dominance by the United States and its allies and demand a broader division of international power. 40 percent of the world population combines the SOZ. To the 2001 of China and among others Russia In the meantime, founded alliance were added, such as India, Pakistan, Iran and Belarus.
At first glance, it is striking that there are numerous autocratic regime in their ranks. The Polish-American historian and Eastern Europe expert Anne Applebaum Has already a year ago in star-InterView explains what many of the countries should also mean with the word “multipolar”: A world in which the citizens have no rights in which larger countries can march into smaller ones. In any case, it is clear what Putin meant by “multipolarity”, said Applebaum: “That he can act as in Russia outside of Russia.”
The 5-minute talk is back: Merz does the Schröder?
An unmistakable sign that summer is slowly coming to an end: our weekly 5-minute talk is back from the summer break! As of today, you can hear five crisp minutes on the most important political topic of the day from Monday to Friday.
In political Berlin, everyone is currently talking about the “autumn of reforms”, meaning: the conversion of the social systems. Whether this succeeds depends on a big question: is Chancellor Merz really ready to risk his own chancellery for necessary reforms? In other words: how much Gerhard Schröder is in Friedrich Merz?
Why do so many young men crash while swimming
Anyone who drowns in the summer bathing fun is one too much. 236 people drowned in Germany until July 31, 2025. Although these are fewer people than in the same period of the year, this is apparently primarily due to the fact that July was so rainy.
An astonishingly high number when looking at the younger victims is interesting: 97 percent of the 49 accident between eleven and 30 years were male. Honorory, high spirits, sometimes alcohol also played a major role among younger victims, writes Christoph Koch – because many of the crashes are non -swimmers. One thing would help one above all: to put the schools in such a way that every student learns swimming there.
And otherwise? Further headlines
- Media report shows plans: The United States introduces itself to the “Riviera of the Middle East” in Gaza
- “We can’t tolerate”: SPD wants to make “catcalling” punishable
- Murder of Ukrainian ex-politicians: Selenskyj announces search success
This happens on Monday, September 1st
- Chancellor Merz comes to an official visit to the North Rhine-Westphalian state government in the Historical City Hall of Münster
- The last day of the transfer period runs in the Bundesliga. BA lot of clubs of the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga, it should still be turbulent today
Our star+recommendation of the day
Do you also feel geared when you don’t get eight hours of sleep at night? You would not be alone: ”Eight hours, the generally common mantra is, are ideal. Those who miss the sleep goal cannot be rested,” writes Miriam Eichhorn-Zachariades.
But has the idea that we need eight hours of sleep, their roots “by no means in human biology, but in the capitalist world of work.” People in the pre -modernity often slept very differently, not in a row, but in two phases.
How did you like this morning | Star? Please write it to me: lisa.becke@stern.de. You can also get this morning briefing in your mailbox as a newsletter. Register Simply under the following link.
I wish you a good week!
Heartfelt,
Lisa Beck
