In the run up to the inauguration of Taiwan’s incoming President Lai Ching-te on May 20, several English-language media outlets have picked up on a decades-long debate about what to do with the many Chiang Kai-shek statues scattered across the island. The...
Germany – specifically, its automotive industry – is Europe’s true Achilles heel when it comes to China policy. Xi Jinping’s visit to Hungary, the final stop of his three-country tour of Europe, came amid the EU’s increasing concerns about his friendship...
Welcome to the 52nd issue of the CEEasia Briefing. In this issue, we dissect the following topics: Chinese investments into EVs in Poland EU's probes into China's green tech subsidies Germany's Olaf Scholz visits China Czechia investigates Chinese surveillance of Hsiao...
Chinese leader's feel-good trips in Belgrade and Budapest against a backlash from the EU. Xi Jinping faces two very different versions of Europe. France’s President and the EU Commission President pressed Xi on complex subjects, but visits to Belgrade and...
National Assembly elections showed low support for the ruling party and President Yoon Suk-Yeol. He will now face even fiercer opposition to his domestic reforms and criticism of his foreign policy activities than he did in his first two years...
The article authored by Małgorzata Jakimów, Filippo Boni, and Richard Turcsányi investigates whether populism affects the foreign policy of European Union (EU) member states towards China and, if so, through what mechanisms. To answer this question, we examine the cases...
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...
