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Tiptoeing around China – Poland Plays it Safe
Five months into the term of Poland’s new government, Foreign Affairs Minister Radosław Sikorski delivered a foreign policy exposé, delineating Warsaw’s aims for the upcoming year. Sikorski reaffirmed Poland’s pragmatic stance towards China, balancing economic interests with concerns over ideological disparities and Beijing’s political tactics, while also avoiding any definitive decision to disengage.
Warsaw Can Play a More Constructive Role in Shaping Europe’s China Policy
Poland’s new government has just been constituted, marking a “new opening” for Warsaw’s foreign policy, including on China – a country whose industrial policy, security orientation and strategic alignment with Russia all have a direct impact on Poland and the EU.
Roadblocks Ahead? Taiwan-Europe Relations After 2024 Elections
The victory of Democratic Progressive Party’s William Lai in the 2024 Taiwan presidential elections signals that Taipei is likely to continue its strategy of diversification of foreign relations, which includes building up stronger ties with Europe. At the same time, domestic politics, and tensions between the executive and the legislative branch in particular, can challenge the development of Taiwan-EU ties. Efforts to build up “Taiwan literacy” within the bloc and a clearer Europe strategy in Taipei will be key to safeguarding the progress achieved to date.
Why We Should Stop Talking about China’s Belt and Road Initiative
China’s most famous global initiative enters its second decade even as it remains mostly an empty slogan. Having bought into China’s successful mythmaking, the West has unwittingly helped to keep it alive.
Germany’s China Strategy: Still in a World of Yesterday?
Big on principles and interests, the Strategy needs a dose of realism and focus more on capabilities in a rapidly changing world.
Germany’s New China Strategy: Following Brussels
For the first time, Germany has adopted a China strategy. The document focuses on risks and breaks with previous mercantilism. It largely follows EU leadership but falls short of new impulses. The German government…
Germany’s National Security Strategy and the China Challenge
After lacking clear guidelines for years, Berlin has clearly outlined its national interests and the means to protect and realize them.
Taiwan and Germany’s China Strategy
As Germany works on its new China strategy, there is a need to comprehensively define an
approach to ties with Taiwan as well.
No Disaster, No Strategy – Germany’s Shaky Stance Towards China
Almost nobody wanted Olaf Scholz to go to Beijing right after the Party Congress or to approve the acquisition of a port terminal in Hamburg port by China. Still, he did. The result was ultimately not as bad as expected. However, the concerns among Germany’s key allies are rising, Scholz’s coalition partners get increasingly irritated, and a weather-proof German China approach seems as distant as ever.