Tag: #COVID19
Beyond COVID-19 Diplomacy: Sustaining Momentum in CEE-Taiwan Relations
As the Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis announced his country’s pledge to donate 20 thousand COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan, the Taiwanese people were quick to devise creative ways to demonstrate their gratitude. Rapidly, generous donations poured...
How China and India are Competing in Vaccine Diplomacy
At the first high-level summit of the "Quad" grouping, the US, Australia, Japan and India agreed to jointly develop, finance, distribute and manufacture vaccines in order to increase vaccine production and to counter Chinese vaccine diplomacy. In...
The Logic of China’s Vaccine Diplomacy
This article was originally published in The Diplomat and is republished here with the permission of the authors.
Since May 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at a World Health Assembly meeting that China considered...
Chinese Vaccine Diplomacy Reigns Supreme in Serbia
This article was originally published in The Diplomat and is republished here with the permission of the author.
When a plane carrying a million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the Chinese company Sinopharm landed...
Fortifying 5G Networks in North Macedonia: The Need for Western Partners
On September 10, 2020, only ten days into his second term as leader of the government, the Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met with Zhang Zuo, the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of...
United Front Reaches Central Europe? Chinese Diaspora during COVID-19
Central Europe is home to a small Chinese community that rarely makes headlines. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, diaspora activities in the region stand at the forefront of China’s “mask diplomacy”.
Prepared in...
As EU-China Relations Sour, Will Taiwan Find an Opening?
With the One-China Policy framed by Beijing as non-negotiable, European policymakers have remained cautious about their approach to Taiwan for decades. However, with Taiwan’s effective response to COVID-19 and little progress in Beijing-Brussels relations, the EU might...
China, Pandemic and the Western Balkans – Lessons for the EU?
When announcing the state of emergency in Serbia on March 15 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić declared the notion of European solidarity non-existent, “a fairy tale on a paper”, while praising China...
The Belt and Road After COVID-19
This article was originally published at The Diplomat and is republished here with author‘s permission.
The COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly looking like a watershed, one of those moments in history that mark the end...
China Is Learning the ‘Russian Way’ of Disinformation on COVID-19
Boxes filled with medical equipment from China are landing at airports in Italy, Spain and Greece, each carrying a note that promises eternal friendship between the countries. Top Czech politicians welcomed the delivery at the runway in...
Oxford-style Debate: COVID-19 Epidemic as China’s ‘Chernobyl Moment’?
MOTION: "The response to the COVID-19 epidemic will damage the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party"
Matej ŠimalčíkCentral European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS), Slovakia
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed – Belgrade Leans Closer to Beijing...
As Serbia fights the coronavirus outbreak it is once again looking to China for support. Coupled with the indignation with the EU’s response, Serbia seems to be moving even closer to Beijing’s orbit. However, none of the...
