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2024-2025 Guest researcher, Zeppelin University 2024 Lecturer, Berlin School of Economics and Law 2023-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) 2019-2023 Doctoral Researcher, SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin 2019 Assistant Researcher (H2020), University of Lisbon 2018 Research Intern, United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies
Czechia: China’s Punitive Silence on Replay
Riding in a Chinese Robotaxi Is Pretty Smooth—That’s a Problem for Waymo BEIJING—I got a glimpse of a technology that soon could be spreading around the world—if not the U.S. It is a Chinese robotaxi. One of the two I tried featured executive-style chairs and ample luggage space where the front passenger would usually sit. With no human behind the wheel, it sailed …
Czechia: China’s Punitive Silence on Replay
Beijing weaponizes communication channels to compel compliance, signal grievance, assert status, and inflict punishment. Subscribe for ads-free reading In the wake of Czech President Petr Pavel’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in July 2025, China severed all engagements with the Czech head of state.
Czechia: China’s Punitive Silence on Replay
Beijing weaponizes communication channels to compel compliance, signal grievance, assert status, and inflict punishment. Subscribe for ads-free reading In the wake of Czech President Petr Pavel’s meeting with the Dalai Lama in July 2025, China severed all engagements with the Czech head of state.
Why Hungary Is Sticking Close to China
Viktor Orban may be close to U.S. President Donald Trump, but he shows no signs of moving Hungary away from a deepening partnership with China. Subscribe for ads-free reading Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long maintained close personal ties with U.S. President Donald Trump. Orban also shares an ideological affinity with the MAGA movement. Yet on one point, the two differ: China policy. Since taking office again, Trump has sought to pressure other countries to disengage from Beijing.
Why Hungary Is Sticking Close to China
Viktor Orban may be close to U.S. President Donald Trump, but he shows no signs of moving Hungary away from a deepening partnership with China. Subscribe for ads-free reading Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long maintained close personal ties with U.S. President Donald Trump. Orban also shares an ideological affinity with the MAGA movement. Yet on one point, the two differ: China policy. Since taking office again, Trump has sought to pressure other countries to disengage from Beijing.
Belt and Road Initiative in South America
2024 | Buch This book is concerned with the varying responses of South American countries to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Since Beijing launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 3/4 of countries in the world have engaged with China's arrangement of promoting global physical and digital connectivity. This still leaves a quarter of them that have refused China’s offer so far or withdrawn. How do we account for why countries chose to join the BRI while others do not?
The EU’s Global Gateway Should Be More Than a ‘Belt and Road’ Copycat
The European Union’s Global Gateway Forum took place in Brussels in late October, a week after the Third Belt and Road Forum was held in Beijing. Launched in 2021, Global Gateway is an EU infrastructure development initiative that provides financing for projects based on six principles: democratic values and high standards, good governance and transparency, equal partnerships, green and clean, security-focused and catalyzing private sector investment.
China’s Switch From the Belt and Road to the Global Development Initiative
China Power | Diplomacy | East Asia China is transitioning from one major global project to another. How are they different? Even as China’s Belt and Road Initiative gears up to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it is fading from prominence. In its place is the new Global Development Initiative (GDI). Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the concept at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021. By September 2022, over 60 nations had joined the Group of Friends of the GDI.
China’s Transition From the Belt and Road to the Global Development Initiative - The Diplomat
At the same time as China’s Belt and Street Initiative gears as much as have a good time its tenth anniversary, it’s fading from prominence. Instead is the brand new World Growth Initiative (GDI). Chinese language chief Xi Jinping introduced the idea on the United Nations Basic Meeting in September 2021. By September 2022, over 60 nations had joined the Group of Associates of the GDI.
China’s Switch From the Belt and Road to the Global Development Initiative - Tribune Content Agency (July 11, 2023)
The Diplomat July 11, 2023 By Lunting Wu Even as China’s Belt and Road Initiative gears up to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it is fading from prominence. In its place is the new Global Development Initiative (GDI). Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the concept at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2021. By September 2022, over 60 nations had joined the Group of Friends of the GDI.
China-Latin America Relations Amid the Pink Tide 2.0 - The Diplomat
Left-wing political events have returned to energy in Latin America and are at the moment ruling the 5 most populous nations within the area: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Amid the so-called Pink Tide 2.0, there are two unfolding developments in Sino-Latin American relations. On the one hand, diplomatic and financial ties have been largely reinvigorated as a result of pronounced political affinity of those governments with Beijing.
China-Latin America Relations Amid the Pink Tide 2.0
China Power | Diplomacy | East Asia The distinct features of the current leftist politics in Latin America may shape relations with China differently than during the first Pink Tide in the early 2000s. Left-wing political parties have returned to power in Latin America and are currently ruling the five most populous countries in the region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Amid the so-called Pink Tide 2.0, there are two unfolding developments in Sino-Latin American relations.
China-Latin America Relations Amid the Pink Tide 2.0 - Tribune Content Agency (May 26, 2023)
Left-wing political parties have returned to power in Latin America and are currently ruling the five most populous countries in the region: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. Amid the so-called Pink Tide 2.0, there are two unfolding developments in Sino-Latin American relations. On the one hand, diplomatic and economic ties have been largely reinvigorated due to the pronounced political affinity of these governments with Beijing.
China-Poland Relations Take a Slide
Lunting Wu & Kamil Matusiewicz The Diplomat October 13, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced two considerably different reactions from Beijing and Warsaw. China has been reluctant to condemn Russia’s aggression, while Poland has been at the forefront of backing Kyiv. How has the war in Poland’s immediate neighborhood shifted its relations with China, Poland’s largest trading partner in Asia? Read Full Article »
China-Poland Relations Amid the Ukraine War
Features | Diplomacy | East Asia From riding high at the Beijing Olympics, China-Poland relations have faltered due to the nations’ opposing approaches to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has produced two considerably different reactions from Beijing and Warsaw. China has been reluctant to condemn Russia’s aggression, while Poland has been at the forefront of backing Kyiv.
China Cannot Condone Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine
China Power | Diplomacy | East Asia China’s attitude toward the Ukraine war stems from functional calculations, diplomatic and military bonds with Kyiv, strategic considerations, and normative reflection. Credit: Depositphotos On the phone call between China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmyro Kuleba on March 1, Wang expressed his profound regrets on the current conflict and paid particular attention to the civilian casualties.
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