In this CEIAS Policy Paper, authors Martin Šebeňa, Thomas Chan, and Matej Šimalčík provide an in-depth analysis of the role of the V4’s participation in European supply chains for goods that are exported to China by quantifying the actual value of exports to China, contrasting it with bilateral trade data, tracing the lack of this information… Continue reading Hidden links: V4’s final demand exposure toward the Chinese market
The fragmentation of production and emergence of global value chains provides authoritarian states like China with new avenues for exercising political coercion via indirect trade relations and final demand exposure to their markets. This paper provides a quantification of Baltic states’ final demand exposure to China and the potential risks of trade weaponization. The 2021… Continue reading Trade weaponization: Vulnerabilities in the Baltic exports to China
