The MapInfluenCE project published a brand-new comparative study, zooming in on media coverage of Chinese investment and Chinese involvement in 5G infrastructure in Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. The research is a follow-up to the MapInfluenCE team’s 2018 study analyzing the overall media discourse on China in the V4 countries. Building upon the previous study, the… Continue reading Careful or Careless? Debating Chinese Investment and 5G Technology in Central Europe
A new report by the European Thin-Tank Network on China (ETNC) analyzes the current trends in Chinese soft power across the European continent. To gain a deeper understanding of China’s changing soft power in various European countries, this report looks into: Activities and priorities of the Chinese government to build and/or utilize its soft power… Continue reading China’s soft power in Europe: Falling on hard times
In September and October 2020, the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc conducted a wide-scale survey of public opinion on China in 13 European countries. The polled countries include: Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Here, we present the basic findings of the survey, which… Continue reading Survey: Europeans’ views of China in the age of COVID-19
In January 2021, the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) and Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA) organized the historically first meeting of the Slovak-Taiwan 1.5 Track Dialogue, a meeting of policymakers and non-government experts to discuss current pressing issues and solutions to them, as well as possibilities of mutual cooperation on these topics. The… Continue reading Slovak-Taiwan 1.5 Track Dialogue (event summary & recommendations)
The paper looks into the image of China in Slovakia. Following the period of relative disinterest of the media in majority of topics connected with China, media are starting to pay increasingly more attention towards China and various aspects of its development, domestic policy, and foreign affairs. Increased media coverage of China begs to ask… Continue reading Image of China in Slovakia: ambivalence, adoration, and fake news
