Chinese efforts in spreading disinformation and fake news on Western social media platforms have typically been characterized by their shallowness. Videos of dancing minorities or praise for Xi Jinping in comment sections are often easily identifiable as agenda-driven. However, this doesn’t make these campaigns any less dangerous. Not every user is aware of the propaganda […]
At the first China-Central Asia Summit in May in Xi’an, China’s President Xi sat prominently in front of an array of flags. With the flags of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan behind him, Xi described the necessity of “renewing our millennium-old friendship and opening up new perspectives for the future”. The timing was […]
The US government is banning certain investments in China’s tech sector. President Joe Biden cites national security concerns. What is more concerning to Europe than the measure itself is its tone and direction, analyzes Finn Mayer-Kuckuk. The US and China continue to split the global market, and with each new turn of the trade conflict, […]
France seeks better access to the Chinese market and a “more balanced” trade relationship – but does not want to decouple from the world’s second-largest economy, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire stressed in Beijing on Sunday. Le Maire said at a press conference in Beijing that he did not want to encounter legislative or […]
De-risking is the name of the game when it comes to relations with the People’s Republic. Germany’s China strategy, which is only a few days old, also mentions minimizing risk as its main goal. But: “There are very different risks – and the concept of risk is not defined in the paper,” says economist and […]
Beijing wants to align Chinese journalists more closely with the party line: With a newly introduced platform and accompanying app, media professionals are to be taught the “Marxist view of journalism.” The All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) presented the app “Journalist’s Home ‘University Hall’” (“记者之家 “大学堂) in late June.Members of the media are expected to watch […]
Today, the EU Trade Policy Committee (TPC) is set to discuss China’s export restrictions on germanium and gallium. The export decision announced by Beijing earlier this week added another dimension to the trade dispute between the US and China, which continues to concern Brussels.The timing of the public announcement regarding the export restrictions on these […]
Spain will take over the EU Council presidency from Sweden on July 1. As in the past six months, the Russian aggression against Ukraine will dominate the agenda of the upcoming presidency, keeping an eye on China and its relationship with Moscow.Madrid’s left-wing government, composed of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and Unidas Podemos, […]
The EU Commission has presented its vision for risk reduction in economic issues. With its economic security strategy, Brussels wants to strengthen its own production and supply chains – and prevent future-relevant technology from flowing to authoritarian third countries, above all China or Russia. The strategy, presented in Brussels on Tuesday, is intended to bundle […]
The EU Commission has presented its vision for economic risk reduction. With the economic security strategy, Brussels wants to strengthen its own production and supply chains – and prevent future-relevant technologies from flowing to authoritarian third countries, above all China or Russia. The strategy, presented in Brussels on Tuesday, is intended to bundle the de-risking […]