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China Watch, News 31 Mar 2022

Is China benefiting from the ongoing Russian-Ukrainan war?

  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 ···

China Watch, News 30 Mar 2022

China Watch – March 2022

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 ···

China Watch, News 17 Mar 2022

China Watch February 2022

Views from the East on Beijing’s influence in the Black Sea region UKRAINE How much risk is China willing to take for the sake of Russia. The coordination between Moscow and Beijing, as viewed from Kyiv by Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow, New Europe Center, think tank from Kyiv Russia’s relations with China are something ···

China Watch, News 14 Nov 2021

Europe’s Vulnerability to Chinese Propaganda is Homegrown

A new form of Orientalism makes the West susceptible to propaganda narratives from China that ultimately aren’t even primarily intended for them. That Western societies are under pressure from Chinese propaganda is no news at all. What is less frequently appreciated is that our susceptibility to it stems from a long tradition of exoticizing the ···

China Watch, News, Projects, Video 2 Nov 2021

What we don’t know about China?

Chinese prosperity is largely state propaganda. The myth of China’s effectiveness is beginning to fade. Details about the Chinese population’s rights and liberties as well as economic opportunities came to surface in recent years. China is investing heavily in innovative technologies, but the goal is to tighten monitoring and control of its people, NOT to ···

China Watch, News, Projects, Publications 129 | 31 Oct 2021

China Watch

Chinese communities in Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine

The Chinese community in Romanian was, and probably still is, one of the biggest communities in Eastern Europe, second only to the one present in Hungary. Although the exact number of Chinese in Romania has always been disputed, the current official number is about 7600 legal residents,making it the third biggest immigrant community after Moldovans ···

China Watch, News, Publications 123 | 2 Jul 2021

What the members of the EU and Romanian parliaments said

Key messages in the conference Eastern Europe-Taiwan

Key messages in the conference held on June 23rd 2021 True to their agenda of democracy building, EFOR and its main partner, the Black Sea Trust (BST, a program of the GMF-US), organized a conference to explore how this potential for cooperation between Taiwan and the Black Sea countries could materialize. Here are some key ···

Activism, China Watch, EFOR in the media, Media Quotes us, Shoutbox 24 Jun 2021

In Brief on 9DASHLINE

EFOR meddles in East Asia, in the proverbial China shop: what we as East-Europeans should do in the growing crisis related to Communist China’s presence in Europe, and how it would help a lot if we were more pragmatic and thought outside the box. Thank you 9DASHLINE

China Watch, News, Projects, Shoutbox, Video 18 Jun 2021

Conference: Eastern Europe and the Republic of China (Taiwan)

June 23 rd 2021, 11:00 CET (17:00 in Taipei; 12:00 in Bucharest) The potential for cooperation between the Eastern Europe/Black Sea countries and the Republic of China (Taiwan) is underexploited and the country’s visibility in our region is low. This is unfortunate because we share important values, like democratic pluralism and the freedom of speech. ···

China Watch, News, Publications 121 | 17 Jun 2021

DIASPORA COMMUNITIES IN BUCHAREST, SOFIA, TBILISI

The Chinese in the Black Sea Countries

In the last three decades a small Chinese diaspora has emerged in Romania and other countries of Eastern Europe. Who are these people? Amy Liu, a Taiwanese-American from the University of Texas, explains here. Read full text of Pol Brief 121

 
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