Podcasts
Voice for CHOICE #7: Examining the EU’s Climate Partnership with China, Featuring Janka Oertel
As the EU attempts to paint China as a reliable partner on climate issues, one must wonder if green policy can truly become divorced from ancillary issues and, crucially, an overall coherent foreign policy. Janka Oertel and Kevin Curran discuss the issues related, wherein Dr. Oertel offers her opinion on compartmentalizing climate policies and China’s contentious status as a partner on climate change issues.
Voice for CHOICE #6: Evaluating China’s Environmental Record with Isabel Hilton
As both the EU-China CAI 17+1 summit begin to fade from view and more challenges yet emerge for China and their relations with both the EU and CEE nations, the Voice for CHOICE podcast is picking up on one of China’s evermore present promises in such high-profile meetings and agreements in 2021, that of climate cooperation
Voice for CHOICE Special Edition: Double Episode on Environmental and Climate Issues
As both the EU-China CAI 17+1 summit begin to fade from view and more challenges yet emerge for China and their relations with both the EU and CEE nations, the Voice for CHOICE podcast is picking up on one of China’s evermore present promises in such high-profile meetings and agreements in 2021, that of climate cooperation
Voice for CHOICE Regional Roundtable: Assessing 17+1 Fallout, Vaccine Diplomacy, and More
The year may yet be young, especially in terms of the lunar calendar, but that has not meant any shortage of major events impacting Sino-European relations. After the CAI’s signing at the close of…
Voice for CHOICE #5: Surveying Sino-Baltic Relations with Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova
As the 17+1 virtual summit approaches, Voice for CHOICE analyzes the role of the Baltic nations and their role in the EU-China dialogue, the role that remains for Russia in influencing the region’s actions on this front, and the strong Transatlantic links that undergird the nation’s security and often its policy stances.
Voice for CHOICE #4: Talking European Perceptions of China with Matej Šimalčík
The European Union’s agreement to tentative terms on its Comprehensive Agreement on Investment with China is ruffling some feathers amongst the European public.
Voice for CHOICE #3: Talking Chinese Propaganda in CEE with Filip Šebok
Filip Šebok, an analyst for the MapInfluenCE project, joins the podcast to discuss the burgeoning threat of dis and misinformation in Central and Eastern Europe, especially that related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Voice for CHOICE #2: Talking US China Policy and the Role of Europe with Robert Daly
The contentious election in the United States, set to be decided on November 3, holds wide-ranging ramifications not only for the US population, but indeed the world. Of particular note in the election of…
Voice for CHOICE #1: Talking Czech-Taiwan Relations with Ivana Karásková
While the initial storm over Czech Senate President Miloš Vystrčil’s visit to Taiwan has quieted, there remains concern over the promises of retribution against the Czech Republic made by prominent Chinese diplomats.
Voice for CHOICE: Agnes Szunomar on China’s Infrastructure Push in CEE
Agnes Szunomar on China’s Infrastructure Push in CEE
Webinar: China’s Sticks and Carrots in Central Europe
The authors of the comprehensive MapInfluenCE study on China’s diplomacy towards the V4 countries in a comparative perspective got together for an online discussion, debating the results of the research as well as the recent developments…
Voice for CHOICE: Filip Šebok on CCP-led Party Diplomacy in CEE
Filip Šebok is a China Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Prague, Czech Republic.