Published: March 23rd, 2021,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
By Marina Rudyak
Marina Rudyak is a sinologist at the Institute of Sinology at Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on Chinese development policy and coded communication in Chinese politics.
Central concepts of international relations, such as freedom, democracy, or multilateralism, can be found equally in European and Chinese discourses. Yet the same words often conceal very different concepts in liberal democracies and China.
