For the first time, European and Southeast Asian leaders will gather in Brussels on December 14th for a bloc-to-bloc summit. The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is now the EU’s 3rd largest trading partner outside Europe, after China and the US. Bilateral trade in goods was worth €215.9 billion last year. And the… Continue reading CEIAS CONSIDERS: What To Expect From The EU-ASEAN Summit?
Following Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, Chinese media have extensively focused on portraying the US as a destabilizing element of global security and peace. At the same time, one can sense an intensifying urgency in the discourse about national reunification, betraying Beijing’s attempts to use Pelosi’s visit as a pretext to create a “new normal”… Continue reading Chinese Media Watch: Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan breaks the status quo
A relic of the Cold War era thinking and a hostility tool used by the US – that is how NATO could be described based on just a few articles in the Chinese media. The Alliance is routinely blamed for various aspects of the current global situation. Unsurprisingly, in response to the Madrid summit’s list… Continue reading Chinese Media Watch: The changing focus on NATO as the primary instigator of “evil”
At the turn of 2022, as Moscow’s large troop build-up along its shared border with Ukraine began, most of the international community and IR experts still did not believe that Russia would invade its western neighbor. There was no economic rationale for an open conflict since neither actor would benefit from it. However, as has… Continue reading Impact of Russian aggression against Ukraine on Taiwan’s security
The NATO alliance is experiencing its rebirth. The new Strategic Concept adopted during the Madrid summit on 29 June is a response to both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and broader strategic shifts in the past few years. This document makes it clear that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to NATO’s security. Much… Continue reading NATO’S Changing Strategy To Counter The Sino-Russian Pole
