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Hidden Chinese Systemic Rivalry: Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices in the EU
As a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the PRC, Hong Kong enjoys unique competences to maintain external relations with other sovereign states and international organizations. A key role in Hong Kong’s paradiplomacy is played…
As Hong Kong Loses Autonomy, Ties with the EU Are Called into Question
Once Asia’s top financial and trade hub, Hong Kong has now become a center for prosecuting and jailing pro-democracy activists. The EU needs to adjust to this new reality.
Voice for CHOICE #10: Getting a Handle on Sino-Hungarian Relations with Szabolcs Panyi
Hungary has had its share of issues as of late, ranging from its import of Chinese vaccines sans EMA approval, to blockage of EU statements on human rights abuses in China, to the politically problematic (and quite pricey) establishment of Fudan University’s campus in Budapest.
Is China a Sustainable Partner on Issues of Environmental Sustainability?
In concluding the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI), the EU’s Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, declared not only that China is a valuable partner in terms of its growing economy…
Europe’s Rising Anti-China Populism
Most European countries have so far avoided making China a topic of domestic political contestation, with only a few parties across the continent playing a “China card”. That may soon change, with Nigel Farage’s…