Today, news agencies broke two news stories that are worth a closer look as both seem to indicate that China has ambitions to help solve the two wars at the gate of the EU.
EU countries and European institutions must do much more to share and centralise sensitive data, to better apprehend economic security risks and more efficiently protect supply chains from increasingly predacious geopolitical actors, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.
After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Beijing, France's Emmanuel Macron must make clear when President Xi visits Paris that de-risking is more than just 'made in Brussels', write Gesine Weber and Earl Wang.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent visit to China is an example of a “do-it-alone” foreign policy approach which can only benefit the Middle Kingdom.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz just concluded his three-day visit to China with a high-profile business delegation, which attracted great attention from both China and the EU.
Over the past year, amid heightened global geopolitical tensions, the European Union has viewed its trade and economic cooperation with China as a "risk point", and the trend is intensifying
Global trade is increasingly vulnerable to changes in the geopolitical environment. While the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continue unabated, a shipping crisis which appeared in the Red Sea is causing serious disruptions to global supply chains.
2023 was a year of great significance for China and the European Union. We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the establishment of comprehensive strategic partnership. And leaders from the two sides had first face-to-face Summit in three years, setting a new direction for the bilateral relationship.
Next week's EU-China Summit will not lead to grand changes in both superpowers' fraught relationship, and it is high time the EU starts thinking collectively on pushing back against China's bullying ways, Institut Montaigne's François Godement writes.
Ambassador Fu Cong gave his remarks during the reception Celebrating the 74th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China in Brussels on Monday.
With the European Commission’s announcement that it would investigate whether China is unduly supporting its burgeoning electric vehicles industry, the fervour with which politicians embrace protectionism is becoming worrisome.
While G7 nations must overcome a market efficiency gap, China must overcome a technology effectiveness one, write Jacob Gunter and Antonia Hmaidi.
Interest in the CEE-China Initiative is dwindling amongst its Central and Eastern European members and minimal economic returns and China’s foreign policy are largely to blame, writes Patrick Triglavcanin.
As a declining middle power heavily reliant on the United States for security, Italy feels significant concern over the ongoing transition in the global order and Rome will have to face the choice of whether to trade military security for economic growth, asks Arturo Varvelli.
While it is becoming clear that the EU's approach to China is that of limiting potential risks over fully cutting ties, the bloc will still struggle to achieve a coherent strategy if it does not get its communication right.
De-risking from China is necessary, but forging green partnerships with other parts of the world is challenging, argues Mats Engström.
As China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats openly question the sovereignty of ex-Soviet states, including the Baltics, Eastern Europe should respond. Eastern European countries should invest in defense industrial supply chains that will not only bolster Ukraine but also support Taiwan, writes Joseph Webster.
France’s ‘third-way’ diplomacy towards China is not new and not primarily premised upon ideology, but a recognition of a China ‘plus vieille que l'histoire’ and a France that needs to affirm its grandeur on the world stage, writes Lucie Qian …
Brussels should not be led by the US but by its own Digital Services Act and the GDPR, as doing otherwise would subvert its prized new internet regulation, write Kai von Carnap and Antonia Hmaidi.
With China, French President Emmanuel Macron has found himself a new diplomatic mission. But his critics are not so convinced that he - and by some extension, Europe - have learned their mistakes from what happened with Russia. While the next …
French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China will start tomorrow (4 April), a high-risk operation that may dent his international stature. But just like Tintin, the globetrotter character of Hergé, Macron will do his best to keep the Chinese dragon away from the evil in Ukraine.
The lack of transatlantic reference in European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's speech on China should be seen through the prism of the EU´s interest in the developing world, writes Janne Leino. Janne Leino is programme manager for foreign and …
The arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a much bigger deal than it may appear: It makes him a political outcast unlikely to play a role in a possible negotiated peace process.
The episode may have escaped the attention of Brussels circles, but a Chinese-brokered deal to restore ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, respectively, the two leading Shi'ite and Sunni Muslim powers in the Middle East, is a diplomatic stunt that provides food for thought.
