Katja Drinhausen on the CCP and digitalization
Digitalization is a crucial element of the Chinese Communist Party’s governance approach. It serves to improve governance and public service, but also enhances the party state’s surveillance and monit...
22 Juni 202113min
Mikko Huotari on the CCP and what Europe needs to prepare for
Mikko Huotari, Executive Director of MERICS, answers questions about the challenges the CCP is faced with in its 100th year and what Europe should be prepared for in relations with China. Beijing will...
11 Juni 20219min
Matt Ferchen on informal actors in China's foreign engagement
China’s economic success and its achievements in poverty reduction are often perceived as inspiring to other countries, especially in the global south. Beijing itself actively promotes its state capit...
30 Apr 202129min
Mikko Huotari zu den deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen
Die sechsten deutsch-chinesischen Regierungskonsultationen finden in diesem Jahr in einem schwierigen Kontext statt. Wegen Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Xinjiang hatte die EU vor fünf Wochen Sanktione...
28 Apr 20218min
Radoslaw Sikorski on EU's sanctions row with China and the transatlantic partnership
“The EU's policy towards China should be based on the following principles: cooperate where possible, compete where needed, confront where necessary.” This is the vision of the European People’s Party...
31 Mars 202117min
Plamen Tonchev on 17+1’s past, present and future
On February 9, China’s President Xi Jinping held an online 17+1 summit with representatives from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The summit would normally be attended by Chinese Premier ...
19 Feb 202137min
Global Challenges 2021: Decoupling, climate and connectivity
Accompanying our MERICS China Forecast 2021 event, MERICS experts wages a look at three global challenges in 2021, namely decoupling and the evolution of multilateralism, cooperation and competition i...
13 Jan 202152min
Rana Mitter on China’s collective memory of WWII
The second World War in China is among the least known chapters of Word War II, yet it is crucial in shaping the politics of post-war Asia into the present moment. The way the war is remembered in Chi...
22 Dec 202048min
