As expected, Taiwanese Vice President-Elect Hsiao Bi-Khim’s March 2024 trip to Europe received negative reactions from mainland China, although official responses from Beijing were limited to Hsiao’s meeting with the president of Czechia’s Senate, Miloš Vystrčil. Some major Chinese news...
Rok 2023 bol pre Slovensko výnimočný. Nielen preto, že priniesol tridsať rokov nezávislosti tejto krajiny a budovania jej diplomatických vzťahov s krajinami na celom svete, ale aj kvôli bezprecedentným politickým zvratom u nás na domácej scéne. Všetkým týmto a ďalším zásadným...
This is not the first time that regional opinion toward the U.S. has soured over events in the Middle East. This year’s annual State of Southeast Asia survey, from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, quite definitively showed that America’s popularity is waning...
Truong My Lan’s huge fraud scheme reached its peak during Hanoi’s vaunted ‘blazing furnace’ anti-corruption drive. After Truong My Lan was sentenced to death last week over her role in a US$12.5 billion financial fraud case, the consensus appears to be that...
A recent survey of regional elite opinion shows a surprising lack of regional concern about the country’s ongoing conflict. The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s annual State of Southeast Asian survey dropped last week, heady times for an overstretched columnist. Not so positive, however,...
In recent years, EU-Taiwan, namely relations between Taiwan and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), have grown stronger. What do the 2024 Taiwan election results mean for the next four years of CEE-Taiwan relations? The DPP’s presidential victory implies a certain...
Welcome to the 51st issue of the CEEasia Briefing. In this issue, we dissect the following topics: EU’s investigation into TikTok Taiwan’s VP visits Czechia Sales of Slovak and Czech weaponry to Southeast Asia India signs FTA with European states...
In Chinese state media, Sweden’s recent NATO accession is discussed with a negative overtone based on general sentiments towards the military bloc. Unsurprisingly, Russian state-promoted narratives on NATO’s purpose to maintain US hegemony and seek confrontation are widely reproduced. Meanwhile,...
To evaluate the European Union’s (EU) policy framework towards China, this study analyses the varied facets of bilateral relations and the EU’s approach towards China, including its policy of de-risking, together with issues relating to China’s domestic politics and foreign...
Although the Visegrad Group (V4) as an intergovernmental platform of Central European countries has the potential for effective dialogue with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), given the current political divisions inside of the V4, fragmented diplomatic activities of...
