My Summer in Beijing
When I told people that I was planning to travel to China for the first time since the pandemic, many strongly warned me against it. Many European academics have become […]
Asia-Pacific
Publications
Southeast Asia’s Hedging: A Strategic Opportunity for the European Union?
Southeast Asia is among the regions where the intensification of Sino-American rivalry is most felt. Notwithstanding attempts by both competitors, the regional states are not willing to take sides, adopting […]
External publications
‘Remonstrating,’ or the Art of Forging Relations
During the highly mediatized state visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to China in April 2023, the ‘People’s Daily’ (Renmin ribao), the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), […]
Commentaries
EU-China: we have to talk about (not Macron but) strategy
Most people don’t like to hear inconvenient truths, especially not, it seems, from the President of France. Yet when Macron says that the European Union should become the third pole, […]
China’s 14th National People’s Congress: No Ordinary Cups of Tea
Compared to the periods of imperial rule that precede it, the Song dynasty government (960–1279) was more autocratic than any Chinese government had been. Under a growing Mongolian threat to […]
Commentaries
Xi Jinping’s olive branch operation serves own agenda
Monday around noon, Chinese President Xi Jinping landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport to start his three-day state visit to Russia. By its own account, China has sent its cool-headed mediating […]