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China’s influence in Romania – and 81 other states: an index with 99 dimensions grouped in 9 sections. Why am I not surprised that the biggest attraction for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Romania is among the academic elite and domestic politics (the latter with caveats, that it is mostly about people from intelligence, ···
Cross-border Talks discussed with Sorin Ioniță from the Romanian liberal NGO Expert Forum about the Chinese presence or rather absence in Central Europe and the Black Sea region. Ioniță explained how the hype in this region about Chinese investment has mostly been unjustified. He also commented on the Western economic engagement of China, which is ···
No large, BRI-type strategic project has materialized so far in Romania, but many con-men with political connections tried to exploit the wave of enthusiasm for “Chinese investments” created after 2012. Today, ten years later, the backlash against Beijing’s economic influence is visible. The few onest business which function are small or medium-sized, operate in ···
On April 13th, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China published an official document – Answers of the spokesperson of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Bulgaria to questions related to Sino-European relations and the Ukrainian crisis.[5] The document summarizes in 6 points (presented as questions) the great importance and ···
We monitored 23 online news websites in Chinese and English over a time period of seven months. We used Pulsar – media monitoring tool to extract data from these sources and we filtered the content according to a list of keywords for each narrative in both languages. We formulated and followed two objectives: Objective 1 ···
Thursday, June 23, 6:00 p.m., Cătălin Teniță MP and Expert Forum invite you to an event dedicated to China’s growing footprint in the global geopolitical landscape. The event aims to open a dialogue on a number of important issues about China, such as the human rights situation and China’s relationship with the US and the ···
China’s narrative of Russia’s war against Ukraine. by Andreea Leonte, Parliamentary advisor and a fellow for China studies at The Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific (RISAP). On February 4th, China and Russia issued a ‘Joint Statement on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development’ highlighting many ···
CHINA’S REACTION TO THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE Our partner, Leonid Litra, Senior Analyst at New Europe Center published an analysis of China’s reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Without changing the rhetoric on the Russian-Ukrainian war, Chinese state-owned financial institutions have quietly distanced themselves from Russia. Read the full ···
Views from the East on Beijing’s influence in the Black Sea region BULGARIA Analysis by the Bulgarian Institute for legal Initiative (BILI) Bulgaria went through a significant political shift of powers in 2021. After more than a decade-long ruling of the center-right party GERB, the year was marked by two provisional governments, appointed by ···