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EFOR monitors Beijing’s influence in Eastern Europe, with a focus on the Black Sea countries, which are usually overlooked. Communist China is less visible than Russia in the region, but it is increasingly present through economic or political action, directly or through the EU. We will quantify this influence in various countries so that our publics understand better the nature of the regime and its interests in our part of Europe.
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 …
A discussion with Amy Liu from Texas University and Ovidiu Nahoi from RFI
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 …
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 …
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 …
Beijing celebrates next month 100 years of Chinese-style communism. The triumphalism and intensity of propaganda are unprecedented, but the problem is that China's international prestige has diminished seriously, especially in Europe. EFOR's report summarizes the …
It is not the boycotting of the 2022 Beijing Olympics that would represent "a politicization of sport and the Olympic ideal", but precisely the manner in which dictatorships instrumentalize the sport events for their propaganda …
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 …
We asked the Catalan mr Josep Borrell, would-be Minister of Foreign Affairs of the EU, about his views on Russia and China. Because we really care about these matters here, in Eastern Europe. No answer …
