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Articles by Jan Gaspers
Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China's Growing Political Influence in Europe
This pathbreaking report investigates the ways in which China seeks to shape politics and public opinion in Europe. The Chinese Communist Party uses governmental and ostensibly private wealth in overt and covert ways to influence political and economic elites, the media and public opinion, and civil society and academia. Some European states have begun to adopt a stance of “preemptive obedience” to Chinese interests on issues such as human rights.
Divide and Rule
China attracts Eastern European countries with the promise of financing much needed infrastructure investments. The EU needs to find a common response. Nowhere else in Europe has China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) been met with such a warm embrace as in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC). The cash-strapped economies of Europe’s Eastern periphery are hoping that Chinese infrastructure financing and investment will drive economic growth.
China’s “16+1” Equals Much Ado About Nothing?
Nowhere else in Europe has China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) been met with quite such a warm embrace as in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). China’s large-scale financing of highways, railways, ports, and other infrastructure to better connect China to Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe has clearly struck a chord with CEE leaders. This is hardly surprising. Almost three decades after the end of the Cold War, the CEE region still displays a remarkable infrastructure gap.
Germany Wants Europe to Help Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The ancient Silk Road has many positive connotations in the German popular imagination. Yet Beijing’s plans to create a modern-day variation of the famous route have triggered mixed reactions from China’s largest European trading partner. Many German trading hubs expect new business opportunities from expanding links with the sea and land routes of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
How to Protect Europe’s Interests in the South China Sea
In rejecting the arbitral award on the South China Sea (SCS), Beijing has made it clearer than ever that it has no intention to seamlessly integrate into the existing international order.
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