Matej Šimalčík contributed with a chapter on Slovakia to a publication titled Comparative Analysis of the Approach towards China: V4+ and One Belt One Road. The publication has been prepared within the framework of the project Comparative Analysis of the Approach towards China: V4+ and One Belt One Road financed by the International Visegrad Fund… Continue reading V4+ and One Belt One Road
The main aim of this article is to develop a discussion on folklorization or how identity is commodified and reduced to only some cultural traits. Currently, folklorization is one of the main devices in PRC’s cultural and political policies in Central Asia. Authors analyze folklorization both inter-state with a particular focus on Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan,… Continue reading Folklorized politics: how Chinese soft power works in Central Asia
China and the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have been engaged recently in dynamic diplomatic exchanges under the umbrella of 16+1 platform and the Belt and Road Initiative. The article offers an explanation of why the massive Chinese diplomatic effort did not lead to an improved image of China in the CEE region. We… Continue reading Friends or foes? How diverging views of communist past undermine the China-CEE ‘16+1 platform’
Policy paper “Potenciál Novej hodvábnej cesty pre Slovensko” sa zoberá vývojom čínskej inciativý Nová hodvábna cesta (angl. Bel and Road Initiative, BRI) a možnostiach, ktoré iniciatíva poskytuje pre Slovensko a rozvoj slovensko-čínskych vzťahov. Odporúčania pre Slovensko Čína a čínske iniciatívy BRI a 16+1 si vyžadujú špecifický prístup. Slovensko potrebuje vyvinúť väčšiu aktivitu ako doteraz, tá… Continue reading Potenciál Novej hodvábnej cesty pre Slovensko
On August 11, 2018 eighteen Chinese workers on a bus were approaching Dalbandin, city just 340 km away from the provincial capital Quetta, which has been repeatedly attacked by local terrorists. As they got closer to the site, workers from Saindak Copper Gold Mine, controlled by Chinese state-owned enterprise Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC), were… Continue reading China’s twofold CPEC strategy in Pakistan
