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Tusk’s Chinese crossroads: Sino-Polish engagement in the post-PiS era

Written by Matthias van Herel

Whether Beijing will find a partner in the new Polish government will heavily depend on Beijing’s capacity to reinvent the BRI, as its current incarnation is losing momentum in Europe.

Europe and the Indo-Pacific9DLJanuary 30, 20249dashline, Tusk’s Chinese crossroads: Sino-Polish engagement in the post-PiS era, Matthias van Herel, Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS), PiS’s illiberal ghost, Prime Minister Donald Tus, Tusk’s Civic Platform, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Sino-Polish trade, belt and road initiative in Europe, The Polish success story, Huntingtonian optimism, Soviet-transformation, post-Soviet transformation, Jarosław Kaczyński’s conservative Eurosceptic PiS party, Alexei Yurchak’s ‘temporality of eternity’, Europhile society, Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość, gregor samsa, European Counci, Euphoria, Central and Eastern Europe region, China’s port in Piraeus, Greece, to the European market, BRI’s New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor (NELB), Kazakhstan, Poland’s competitively priced road transportation sector, 2011 Strategic Partnership, Łódź and Sichuan Province, Łódź’s severe economic downturn, Witold Stępień, Łódź Hanna Zdanowska (PO), Hatrans, Dell, lechów-based factory with its supplier Foxconn, Polish Consulate General in Chengdu, Sino-Polish relations, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Multimodal Technology Park, Comprehensive Strategic Partnerships, Military Property Agency, Polish minister of defence Antoni Macierewicz, Three Seas Initiative, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), Viktor Orbán, hird Belt and Road Forum in October 2023, European Council, Sino-Polish economic ties

China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe: stuttering to a halt?

Written by Dr Jeremy Garlick

The BRI’s unfulfilled potential in the region leaves the connectivity and cooperation aims of the initiative largely on the shelf, with the main successes for China located in Western Balkan countries that are not EU members.

Europe and the Indo-Pacific9DLJune 12, 20239DashLine, China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe: stuttering to a halt?, Jeremy Garlick, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), China, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), One Belt One Road, Beijing, Russia, Western Europe, developing world, Global South, investment, Cold War, Soviet influence, Sino-Soviet split, communist regimes, 16+1 framework, 16+1, 16+1 summit, 14+1, 17+1, EU, trade, economy, trade routes, China-CEE cooperation, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s invasion, Russia's aggression, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Taiwan, infrastructure, Western Balkans, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, China-CEE cooperation framework, Russia’s regional influence, Greece, high-speed railway, Belgrade, Budapest, EU regulations, Hungary, Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, Southeast Europe, port of Piraeus, trade chain, Suez Canal, trade volumes, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, bilateral deals, EU bureaucracy, highway, railway, Danube River, bridge, sewer system, power plants, energy infrastructure, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Central Asia, Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), Africa, EU accession, EU integration, creditor, Fudan University, ‘One China’ policy, United Nations, Xinjiang, connectivity, Eurosceptic, CEE countries, CEE region, regionalisation, CEE, Central and Eastern Europe, European Union

2023: The future of CEE-China relations

9DASHLINE asked a select group of experts to assess Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries’ relations with China and how they expect them to evolve in 2023.

Europe and the Indo-Pacific9DLJanuary 16, 20239dashline, 2023: The future of CEE-China relations, JUSTYNA SZCZUDLIK, VUK VUKSANOVIC, VALENTINA VENGUST, STEFAN VLADISAVLJEV, Central and Eastern European, CEE, China, 17+1, 14+1, Beijing, 2022, 2023, Russia, Ukraine, Russia-Ukraine war, PRC-CEE, PRC-CEE relations, economic cooperation, security concerns, critical infrastructure, high-tech industry, backsliding, democratic backsliding, coercion, Lithuania, EU common market, 'no-limits' friendship, Moscow, 16+1 summit, Huo Yuzhen, Estonia, Latvia, Jiang Yu, US, united states, Taiwan, security guarantor, NATO, China-CEE format, Czech Republic, Greece, Chinese investments, security concern, security guarantees, Washington, Belarus, Belt and Road Initiative, BRI, Serbia, Hungary, Middle Corridor, Albania, North Macedonia, cooling-off period, joint statement, territorial integrity, sovereignty, diplomatic missions, Baltic countries, EU-China relations, China-CEE cooperation, cooperation mechanism, Sino-Serbian cooperation, territorial disputes, free trade agreement

EU energy politics: Between Russian aggression and Chinese ambition

Written By Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu

Although European leaders are firmly aware of the risks of climate change, and therefore adhere to their self-penned “Green Deal”, they have seemingly awoken to a complex reality. 2022 could be the year for Europe’s energy and climate realism breakthrough.

Europe and the Indo-Pacific9DLJanuary 19, 20229dashline, Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu, europe, Russia, china, Climate Change, European Green Deal, Nord Stream 2, Nord Stream 1, Europe, Gas, Green Deal, France, European Union, EU, Germany, Gazprom, Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Putin, Chayandinskoye, China, Siberia 2, Yamal Peninsula, Norway, Aiways, BYD, SAIC, VOYAH, SVOLT, Amperex, Portugal, Poland, Italy, Sweden, Greece, United Kingdom, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, Ming Yang, Goldwind, Xinjiang, Carnegie Europe

In Conversation: Alex Dukalskis on his latest book 'Making the World Safe For Dictatorship'

In the past year or so there has been a big change in the way China’s political system is perceived in Europe. China’s actions with regard to several smaller European states like Sweden, Czech Republic, Lithuania, for example, have alerted publics to the political risks of close relations with Beijing.

China and Central Europe: A love affair that was never meant to be?

Written by Tamás Matura

China has indeed made mistakes in its courtship of the region in the past decade. Together with CEE governments, it raised expectations it could not fulfil and followed a top-down approach targeting the elites of CEE societies instead of winning the hearts and minds of the people.

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挺身對抗中國可以讓立陶宛、歐盟與台灣關係更緊密

作者：馮儒莎博士

來自里加、塔林，以及布魯塞爾對立陶宛的支持，不僅是崇高且必要，對波羅的海和歐盟整體的未來也至關重要。立陶宛決定在台灣開設辦事處的決定，為拉脫維亞和愛沙尼亞樹立了先例，這兩個鄰國皆面臨來自中國和俄羅斯相似的威脅，必須緊急解決國內類似的弱點。

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Standing up to China could help bring Lithuania, the EU and Taiwan closer together

Written by Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

Lithuania’s decision to open an office in Taiwan sets a precedent for Latvia and Estonia, neighbours who face similar threats from China — and Russia — and must urgently address similar vulnerabilities at home.

Is China losing Central and Eastern Europe?

Written by Michael Trinkwalder

However, if the EU truly wishes to make its Eastern members commit to a common strategy, its Western members will also have to give up on their jealously guarded ‘special relationships’ with China. A strategy devised between Paris and Berlin alone might be more ambitious, but it would do little good if it left half of the Union out in the cold.

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