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CHOICE is an independent platform for monitoring & evaluating the influence of China in the CEE region. Designed and run by the Association for International Affairs (AMO). #ChinaObservers
@chinaobservers.bsky.social 🚗🔋Chinese EV and battery manufacturers expand across CEE & reshape the region's automotive future. But what opportunities and risks does this transformation bring? ✍️Ágnes Szunomár explores various implications: 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/green-transi...
@chinaobservers.bsky.social 🤔 Could Andrej Babiš's return to power reshape Czechia's approach to China? @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social explores what is changing and what is not.✍ Read the article 👉 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/is-a-czech-c...
🎙️Why is #China advancing its civilian & military #nuclear capabilities? 📈In this episode of China Observers, Emma Belmonte talks to Tong Zhao (@carnegieendowment.org) and Paulína Ovečková (@amo.cz) about China's rapid development in nuclear energy. 🎧 Listen👉 chinaobservers.eu/chinas-nucle...
@chinaobservers.bsky.social 💸Chinese FDI is making its way to Europe, and we need to learn how to deal with it. @sensehofstede.nl analyzes Europe's options and explains what 💡lessons can be taken from SE Asia, which experienced previous waves of Chinese FDI. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-eu-needs...
@chinaobservers.bsky.social ✍ Paulína Ovečková writes about China's #nuclear energy expansion. Learn: 1️⃣ Why #China struggles to sell its reactors abroad 2️⃣ Why #Beijing sets unrealistic nuclear targets 3️⃣ How nuclear exports create decades-long #dependency 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-one-unsu...
@chinaobservers.bsky.social ✍️CHOICE Fellow Stefan Vladisavljev writes about key changes in Serbia-China relations. Main takeaway? Cooperation moved from🏗️ infrastructure to🤖 AI, tech, and nuclear energy agreements, with📉less overall investment. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/serbias-new-...
@chinaobservers.bsky.social In 2025, #Azerbaijan joined the Central Asian Consultative Meeting (C5), turning it into #C6. Ioseb Dzamukashvili Sekhniashvili explains what it means. 🔗https://chinaobservers.eu/azerbaijan-and-the-c6-fueling-a-strategic-autonomy-pivot-in-central-asia/
✍ @bajramgeci.bsky.social presents the underexplored relations between China & Kosovo. A must-read about how China's support for Serbia, a state that most actively contests Kosovo’s international position, is reflected in Kosovo's China policy and more... 👇 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/not-recogniz...
#NATO's Ankara summit made headlines for record defense spending but the quieter story in #Brussels may matter more. Konrad Szatters writes on #Europe entering a more openly confrontational era: 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-nato-sum... Takeaways🧵
The NATO Summit and the Long Shadow of Beijing – chinaobservers
NATO leaders gathered in Ankara last week amid the biggest military buildup Europe has seen in decades . Russia was the threat everyone in the room could name.
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🧊Looking for a way to escape the summer heat? Today’s CHOICE article takes you to the Arctic, where Matti Puranen and Sasu Katajamäki explore China's growing focus on the region. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/from-space-t...
In June, China was just everywhere on Europe's agenda... That's what we write about in our newsletter 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/choice-newsl...
CHOICE Newsletter: China, Everywhere on Europe’s June Agenda – chinaobservers
Dear reader, June has once again proved that China is no longer a side issue in Europe’s strategic debates. From the EU Foreign Affairs Council to the G7 Leader
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📬Every first Thursday of the month, we send out a newsletter focused on current China-related developments, with contributions of multiple experts in the topic. If you would like to receive the newsletter this Thursday, subscribe here👉 amo.ecomailapp.cz/public/form/...
Today at CHOICE, @messingschlager.bsky.social examines how Europe’s China policy is increasingly shaped by a new challenge: access to reliable evidence. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/when-the-evi... Takeaways 👇
🎙️How is AI (quite literally) reshaping faces in China? In today’s episode of China Observers, Emma Belmonte dives into the world of surveillance, facial recognition, and the cosmetic surgery boom with Margaret Hillenbrand and Xuenan Cao. Listen👉 chinaobservers.eu/the-future-o...
✍️Nino Lezhava takes a closer look at Hualing Group's influence in Georgia and uses the example to reveal the broader dynamics of China's influence. Read the article 👉 chinaobservers.eu/a-private-co...
Today we are looking back to the third edition of the #FutureCHOICE #SummerSchool! Find out all about it👉 chinaobservers.eu/future-choic... Long story short 👇
Today at CHOICE, @sensehofstede.nl maps Chinese military diplomacy in CEE👇 👀 Read the piece and see the interactive map🗺️ with names and ranks of PLA defense attachés 👉 chinaobservers.eu/why-cee-is-i... 🧵
🌍 Is Europe facing its "Macedonian moment"? ✍@vanbergheneu.bsky.social en explores the implications of the Trump–Xi summit for Europe’s strategic future. 👉As Washington and Beijing move toward managing rivalry through interdependence, space remains for the EU... 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/trump-xi-and...
✍ Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin right after meeting Donald Trump. In a must-read for all following the China-Russia cooperation and the war in Ukraine, Vita Golod writes about what this meeting means for Ukraine. 👉 chinaobservers.eu/what-the-lat... Originally published by The Diplomat.
🗺️ Today we bring an illuminating comparison of CEE perspectives on China's newest Five-Year Plan by Selena Orly. ✍ Read the article and find out how the 15th FYP is perceived in different capitals & how it impacts their China policy👉 chinaobservers.eu/cee-receptio...
🌞Day 3 of #FutureCHOICE #SummerSchool started with a spot-on lecture by Professor Dr. May-Britt U. Stumbaum (The SPEAR Institute), who presented the military & political perspectives of how an Indo-Pacific conflict could affect Europe. @amo.cz
📢 After two years, we return with the third edition of #FutureCHOICE #SummerSchool! This years' cohort is very engaged and ready to explore the most pressing questions of Europe's Indo-Pacific engagement.👩💼A recap of all the things we did👇 @amo.cz
🏭If #China dominates in both low and high-tech #manufacturing, is there any space left for other countries?✍Paulína Ovečková explores the idea of a “Double China Shock”, a situation in which China challenges both developing &advanced economies.🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-double-c...
❓What does it mean to be Chinese in Europe today? Chu Yang's fourth entry in a CHOICE Long Reads series, explores how many #ChineseDiaspora communities reject the binary of being “Chinese” or “European” and instead build identities between cultures. 📖 chinaobservers.eu/homeland-in-...
🍚 #FoodSecurity is a big priority for Xi Jinping's #China. Our host Emma Belmonte unpacks China's current food security challenges with @GenevieveDonn in the newest episode of #ChinaObservers #podcast. 🎧Listen to the episode👉 open.spotify.com/episode/4w8k...
📢 On Tuesday, @amo.cz organized a roundtable at the Czech Parliament on Russian and Chinese coordination of disinformation against Europe, together with MP Helena Langšádlová.
📲 Emma Belmonte and Paulína Ovečková, our analysts tracking China's growing social media footprint, spoke to Le Monde about #Chinamaxxing. Read the article 👉 www.lemonde.fr/internationa... #China #SocialMedia #Influence #Influencers
Comment la Chine utilise les influenceurs sur TikTok ou Instagram pour redorer son image
Pékin continue de diffuser son soft power avec une ambitieuse politique de séduction de la jeunesse par les réseaux sociaux. A Chongqing, ville futuriste aux mises en scène technologiques spectaculair...
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📢New research out! @sensehofstede.nl built a dataset of Chinese MFA & International Department of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) interactions with the #VisegradFour countries. 📊Combining the data showed how #China expands its diplomatic toolkit🔗 chinaobservers.eu/chinese-part... Takeaways👇
Chinese Party Diplomacy in Visegrad Countries Shows the Range of Beijing’s Foreign Policy Toolkit – chinaobservers
Chinese diplomacy does not just take place via Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has organs that undertake diplomat
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