CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies
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#CEIAS is an #IR and #AsianStudies #ThinkTank dedicated to spreading knowledge about #Asia. Branches in Bratislava, Prague, and Vienna.
🚨Can #WAICO reshape global #AI governance? 🚀 In July 2026, #China launched WAICO with 29 #GlobalSouth countries. We asked #experts to assess what WAICO means for evolving AI landscape, whose interest it serves & what it could mean for #Europe. 🇪🇺 📲 ceias.eu/ceias-consid...
📌 SAVE THE DATE: Can the #ASEAN - #EU Strategic Partnership deliver more than goodwill? Join the upcoming webinar organized by @iseas-singapore.bsky.social “From Trust to Traction: ASEAN-EU Relations at a Crossroads”. 📅 6 August | 3:30–5:00 PM (SGT) 🔗 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🚨 Research on Southeast Asia has a long tradition in #Czechia, #Poland, #Hungary, and #Slovakia. 🎓 Today, academic ties with Southeast Asia are expanding but cooperation remains uneven across the region. 📲 ceias.eu/academic-rel...
🇹🇱 Since gaining independence in 2002, #TimorLeste has regarded #ASEAN membership as a milestone of its nation-building process and in defining its regional identity. 👉 What’s next for the newest ASEAN member? 📲 ceias.eu/timor-lestes...
🚨 The #EU 🇪🇺 and #SouthKorea are strengthening their partnership as security challenges become increasingly interconnected. 🌍 👉 Read to learn what came out of their latest summit. 📲 ceias.eu/eu-and-south...
🪖 As #Myanmar’s military regime regains the strategic initiative, the #EU may soon have to rethink its approach to the junta. 👉 Discover what the #Tatmadaw’s resurgence means for the region and the EU. 📲 ceias.eu/the-tatmadaw...
🚨 #Portugal’s strong political ties with #China are reflected in active academic cooperation but research-security safeguards remain underdeveloped. 🔗 101 academic links ⚠️ 24.8% involve PLA-linked universities 🏛️ 5 Confucius Institutes 👩🎓 Cooperation driven mainly by exchanges
Tomorrow afternoon (July 10) the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club will organize a panel discussion with I-Chen Liu of @article19.bsky.social, @matejsimalcik.bsky.social of @ceias-eu.bsky.social and @athenaktong.bsky.social as our panellists
🇨🇳🤖 New experiment suggests #China’s #AI-content rules may reach far beyond its borders. On politically sensitive topics, some Chinese #LLMs don't just reflect local laws — they can echo official #CCP narratives, even when discussing other countries. 📲 ceias.eu/chinese-llms...
📝 New Issue Brief: Forging the Arsenal Corridor: China–Pakistan Defense Integration and the New Strategic Supply Chain, by Seong Hyeon Choi and Jagannath Panda: www.isdp.eu/publication/... @ceias-eu.bsky.social
Forging the Arsenal Corridor: China–Pakistan Defense Integration and the New Strategic Supply Chain - Institute for Security and Development Policy
Seong Hyeon Choi and Jagannath Panda examine how Chinese defense transfers have reshaped Pakistan’s military capabilities.
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🚨 The new #CEEasia Briefing is out! In this issue, we cover: 1️⃣ Modi visits #Slovakia 🇮🇳🇸🇰 2️⃣ #Lithuania & #China to normalize ties 3️⃣ Poland pursues cooperation w/Taiwan 🇹🇼 4️⃣ #EUCO debates China 🇨🇳 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/ceeasi... 📲 Join 2,765+ subscribers now!
CEEasia Briefing #78: Modi visits Slovakia, Vilnius and Beijing to normalize ties, Poland pursues closer cooperation with Taiwan, EUCO debates China
Dear friends, Welcome to the 78th issue of the CEEasia Briefing. In this issue, we dissect the following topics: Indian Prime Minister visits Slovakia Lithuania looks to normalize ties with China Pola...
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🪖🇲🇲 Five years after Myanmar’s military coup, soldiers dancing to #propaganda songs on #TikTok have become a symbol of the regime’s digital authoritarianism. Discover how #Myanmar is becoming a blueprint for digital authoritarianism worldwide. 🌏 📲 ceias.eu/dancing-sold...
⚖️ The battle over the rule of law Yet the Taiwan Strait is also a battleground of competing legal visions, as #Beijing 🇨🇳 and #Taipei 🇹🇼 advance fundamentally different understandings of the rule of law. ceias.eu/lawfare-acro...
Lawfare across the Strait: Taiwan's legal resilience and China's expanding rule-of-law narrative - CEIAS
During the author's recent research stay in Taipei, conversations about China rarely began with military exercises. They began with law, constitutional interpretation, amendments to national security ...
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🚨Excluded from #Interpol, Taiwan has turned to bilateral cooperation to fight transnational crime. Discover how #Taiwan 🇹🇼 navigates this exclusion and why it should expand cooperation with Europe. 🇪🇺 ✍️ @matejsimalcik.bsky.social 📲 ceias.eu/bilateral-co...
🚨 #Taiwan’s ties with #CEE buckle under #China pressure CEIAS Executive Director @matejsimalcik.bsky.social comments for @bloomberg.com on the evolving nature of Taiwan’s engagement with CEE. Read the full article👇 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Taiwan’s Dumpling Alliance Fades Under China’s Economic Squeeze
The “Dumpling Alliance” burst to life during Covid, a nifty description for an informal collective of Eastern European states supporting Taiwan. Just a few years later, it’s hard to find a mention of ...
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🇨🇿🇹🇼 As #Prague recalibrates its approach to #Taiwan, Czech-Taiwan semiconductor cooperation is being put to the test. Yet growing research, talent, and business ties suggest the relationship may be more resilient than politics alone. ceias.eu/czech-taiwan...
Czech-Taiwan semiconductor cooperation: From political symbolism to tangible results - CEIAS
In recent years, Czechia has emerged as one of Taiwan’s closest partners in Europe and has been among the most active countries in engaging with the island democracy. Cooperation in semiconductors has...
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🇪🇺 Can #Europe turn its #semiconductor ambitions to reality? Our latest CEIAS Considers examines whether Chips Act 2.0 can deliver on the #EU’s ambitions and why #IndoPacific partnerships may be key. 👉 ceias.eu/ceias-consid...
🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Xi–Putin summit reaffirmed the strength of Sino-Russian ties but beneath the surface, #Russia’s growing dependence on #China is causing unease among parts of the Russian elite. Read more 👉 ceias.eu/the-xi-putin...
🚨 What does #Modi’s trip reveal about the evolving partnership between #India and #Slovakia? 📲 @matejsimalcik.bsky.social breaks down the significance of the visit👇 spectator.sme.sk/politics-and...
Slovakia wants a bigger role in Europe’s turn towards India
Modi’s visit offers Bratislava a chance to expand trade, attract investment and strengthen ties with a rising global power.
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🇸🇰🇮🇳 Today’s visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to #Slovakia marks a historic first and comes at a time of growing strategic engagement between #Europe and #India. 📲 Learn more: www.linkedin.com/posts/ceias-...
🚨 #Tibetan monks can move and practice freely in #Taiwan but many still cannot obtain residency, access healthcare, or open a bank account. Our latest article explores why.👇 ceias.eu/the-securiti...
The Securitized Monk: Tibetan Buddhism between China’s persecution and Taiwan’s democratic contradictions - CEIAS
Taiwan is widely celebrated as one of Asia’s leading democracies. Yet its treatment of Tibetan Buddhist monks reveals a quieter contradiction. While religious practice is permitted, access to basic ri...
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🇹🇼🇪🇺 Sister-city partnerships are quietly expanding #Taiwan’s presence in #Europe Yet their distribution remains highly uneven. 👀 Why does #Poland lead Europe with 7 partnerships while many countries have none? ceias.eu/sister-citie...
Sister cities, strategic gaps: Taiwan’s uneven paradiplomacy in Europe - CEIAS
Paradiplomacy offers Taiwan a viable way to expand engagement with Europe by navigating diplomatic constraints imposed by European states' One-China policies. But Taiwan has yet to fully utilize the t...
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Missed #CEEasiaForum2026? 👀 Take a look back at the topics driving discussions between #Europe and #Asia today and discover the key takeaways from this year’s forum!👇 ceias.eu/ceeasia-foru...
CEEasia Forum 2026: Conference report - CEIAS
On 20–21 April 2026, the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) co-hosted the CEEasia Forum 2026 conference in Bratislava, Slovakia. The t...
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In #Singapore, EUSEAR PI Alfred Gerstl gave presentations at NUS (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy) and NTU (RSIS) on #ASEAN-#EU relations, with a focus on #CentralEasternEurope. Picture: A. Gerstl with NTU's Alan Chong and #Ukraine's ambassador Kateryna Zelenko. @ceias-eu.bsky.social
🇹🇼 Can democracies remain truly inclusive while some communities stay legally invisible? In a new article for @thediplomat.com, @kris-ki.bsky.social and Dolma Tsering examine statelessness and legal exclusion in #Taiwan. Read the full article👇 thediplomat.com/2026/05/taiw...
Taiwan’s Democratic Blind Spot: Statelessness and Legal Exclusion
Taiwan’s stateless and undocumented population, numbering in the tens of thousands, has no access to basic rights, including healthcare, legal residency, and in some cases, education.
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🚨POLL: Has the #US lost the global battle for hearts and minds? 🌍 A new poll across 85 countries suggests #China and even #Russia now enjoy better global image than the #US. Richard Turcsanyi for @thediplomat.com 👇 thediplomat.com/2026/05/poll...
Poll: How the US Lost the ‘Hearts and Minds’ of People Worldwide
Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a better global image.
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