1. INTRODUCTION A delegation of our Institute, lead by Director Alberto Di Minin, attended last week the “Asia-Europe cooperation Dialogue Forum”, organized by “The European…
On December 2nd around three hundred business leaders, members of multilateral organisations, national governments and institutions from Europe and Asia will gather in Chongqing to…
The European Union is skeptical that China will ever reform its economy, following growing tensions with the United States and the pressure of Beijing to…
Germany and France are expected to promote a new common strategy that may include changes to the EU’s industrial policy vis-à-vis China during the next…
Being one of the cornerstones of the changing international geopolitical order, in 2018 Sino-European relations have been put under scrutiny as never before. Since 2014,…
In times when it is getting exponentially harder for Chinese investment to enter the United States, China is rediscovering the European Union as an important…
Chinese outbound foreign direct investment (OFDI) has dramatically swung towards Europe over North America in the first six months of the 2018. China is investing…
Following Trump’s increasingly aggressive push to impose tariffs both on rival powers – like China – and also on old-time allies like the European Union,…
Last year, an article appeared on our weekly newsletter called “2018 is EU-China Tourism Year: a great opportunity to promote growth and mutual understanding” discussed…
Only by collaborating on multiple fronts, China will succeed in working through a three-way stand-off over trade between Beijing, Brussels and Washington. In particular, observers…
On May 9th, 2018 we have celebrated the 68th anniversary of the 1950 “Schuman Declaration” which laid the foundations of what is today the European…
The EU and China have been cooperating closely on intellectual property for nearly two decades. The IP Key China project launched in January 2018 builds…
After 2016 US-China Tourism Year and 2017 Australia-China Tourism Year, in 2018 it will be Europe’s turn to be China’s main international partner in terms…
On November 1, the European Union’s Ambassador to China, Hans Dietmar Schweisgut, posted on the website of the EU Delegation in Beijing a statement saying…