Interaction between Slovakia and the region of East Asia offers plenty of opportunities for Slovak businesses to export or invest abroad, yet due to lack of resources, Slovakia has been unable to maintain close relations with every partner in this region. In his contribution to the Yearbook of Slovakia’s Foreign Policy 2019, Matěj Šimalčík describes… Continue reading Slovak relations with East Asia: A lost decade? (Yearbook of Slovakia’s Foreign Policy 2019)
The patterns of COVID-19 spread through Europe show that the European response to the growing risk of the virus spreading out of China came late. When the COVID-19 outbreak started escalating in January, the world was tensely watching the situation in China which was the epicenter of the epidemic. As the first cases outside China… Continue reading How Europe acted “too little too late” amidst the COVID-19 spread
Pandémia COVID-19 priniesla na Slovensku nevídanú pozornosť otázkam týkajúcim sa Číny. V tejto infografike sa pozeráme na desatoro, pre dosiahnutie efektívnej a hodnotovej zahraničnej politiky voči Číne.
Európania robia pri nákupoch v Číne stále rovnaké chyby. V nemocniciach po celej Európe urgentne chýba potrebný materiál na boj proti koronavírusu a mnohí sa preto spoliehajú na dodávky z Číny. Tie však nie vždy prichádzajú v potrebnej kvalite, čo vo zvlášť vypätej situácii vyvoláva silné emócie. Kým mnohí komentátori majú jasno v tom, že… Continue reading Aj v Číne majú svojich Kičurov
Coronavirus pandemic threatens Kazakstan with serious economic loss. Across media outlets, leaders’ roundtables as well as people’s kitchen tables, the early months of 2020 have been dominated by a single topic: COVID-19. Most attention was initially placed on Europe and China, which for now appears to have contained the initial Wuhan outbreak. However, as global… Continue reading COVID-19: All Quiet on the Central Asian Front?
