Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)

Listen to our new podcast episode on #China and #Trump's election victory, with Jude Blanchette and Katja Drinhausen. With Claudia Wessling they discuss what the renewed election of Donald Trump to the White House will mean for the United States’ already complicated relations with China; how Trump is discussed in China, both on an informal and expert level, but also in the official realm; and how all of this concerns the #EU and member states. Find the new episode here:?https://lnkd.in/gjvhVcmr

China has been suspected of sabotage in connection with damage inflicted on two submarine cables in the baltic sea. Investigations are still ongoing.??We have to wait until the investigations are complete before we accuse China. We have to be extremely careful and refer to reliable facts. Otherwise, we would be encouraging disinformation, which we ourselves are trying to combat”, says Abiga?l VASSELIER. “This is particularly important because we Europeans are at a critical moment in which we recognize that China poses a threat to the European security architecture.” Read the full interview with Tagesschau.de: https://lnkd.in/gCUTxCXN

How internationally integrated is #China’s economy? It might come as a surprise to learn that the world’s factory remains more isolated than its manufacturing prowess suggests. Despite years of growing international exchanges, the Chinese economy remains substantially less integrated into the world economy than the #US and even #Japan. China’s dominance in industrial exports can indeed lead to an overestimation of its global role. ? Our new report by MERICS Senior Economist Fran?ois Chimits looks at these disparities in Chinese global economic integration and why these are the result of a selective and transactional approach by Beijing, advancing economic integration only if this promised gains elsewhere. The study is based on data from MERICS’ new China Internationalization Index. The index reveals that China’s opening up was mainly aimed at securing commodities, investment and talent for China and not so much targeted at the financial economy and its vast but intangible capital markets and related services. ? ??Read the report on our website: https://lnkd.in/gAxdJNdk The study was made possible with support from the project “Dealing with a Resurgent China”, funded by the EU’s?Horizon Europe?research and innovation programme. ? China Horizons – Research Consortium, Kasper Ingeman Beck, PhD, Alicia Garcia-Herrero 艾西亞, Michal Krystyanczuk, Marcin Jacoby, Jean-Fran?ois Di Meglio, Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-Baptiste MONNIER, PhD., Jean-Louis Rocca, Stéphanie BALME (鲍佳佳), Mario Esteban, Alessia A. Amighini

We are still thrilled about a very successful European China Conference 2024, which we hosted together with the European Council on Foreign Relations yesterday at Palais Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. Thomas Bagger, State Secretary of the Ausw?rtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany, kicked off the subsequent panels and workshops with a keynote speech in which he shared his assessments on the German #China Strategy and European China policy. He pointed out that “the current China Strategy has established a solid floor when it comes to China analysis and China policy.”?? ? He continued emphasizing the complexity and the importance of the future direction of the German China policy: “China policy will have to have an even more prominent role in our next government – simply because the number and complexity of China-related challenges will only grow, also in our transatlantic relationship.”? ? Additionally, he mentioned the need of better integrating the European perspective into Germany’s China policy: “The European dimension of our China policy should and will grow, if only because trade, regulatory and innovation policy will get ever more central in the complex US-China-Europe relationship – and that is where the Brussels institutions and mechanisms have the greatest competence.”? ? With regard to transatlantic relations, Thomas Bagger underlined the necessity of defending European autonomy and core values: “Even if the policies between the United States and Europe were indeed similar, we have our own interest in mind. The EU will always defend its own values and interests, our liberal democracy and our single market with determination. Often these interests overlap with those of the US. Sometimes they do not.”?? ? We thank Ausw?rtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany for having kindly supported this insightful conference on European China policy.?

In Kooperation mit dem Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN) diskutieren wir am 28. November die Frage ?Deutschland-China 2035: Mit welcher Zukunft sollen wir planen?“. Wir freuen uns mit den Experten Armin Reinartz (Leiter der Abteilung "Europ?ische und internationale Zusammenarbeit in Bildung und Forschung" beim Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung), Xifan Yang (ehemalige Peking-Korrespondentin der ZEIT Verlagsgruppe) und unserem Chef?konom Max J. Zenglein anderthalb Jahre nach Ver?ffentlichung der ersten deutschen #China-Strategie zu diskutieren, wie es in diesen herausfordernden Zeiten steht um die deutsch-chinesischen Beziehungen in den Bereichen Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Axel Rahmlow, Moderator, Deutschlandradio. Wir danken Deutschlandradio Kultur für die Zusammenarbeit. Hier k?nnen Sie sich für die Veranstaltung anmelden: https://lnkd.in/esMk2NaJ

With the final panel on #EU-#China relations an insightful conference with meaningful contributions and lively workshops is soon coming to an end. A huge thank you to all the China experts and practitioners who joined our ? European China Conference 2024 ? today and contributed to the inspired discussions and rich sharing of knowledge. The conference took place at Berlin's Palais Kulturbrauerei and was kindly supported by the Ausw?rtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany and co-organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations.

The room is ready and we are about to kick off the ? European China Conference 2024 ?. We are hosting the event today together with the European Council on Foreign Relations at Palais Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. The conference brings together the who is who of #China experts to discuss a wide range of topics crucial for re-calibrating #European China policy after a turbulent political year: ? The impact of the #US elections on transatlantic China policy ? European resilience towards China ? China’s space policy ? China-#Russia relations and the North Korea factor ? European corporates and their struggle in a changing China and world ? The party’s struggle for “positive energy” amid socio-economic stress ? China’s approach to biotechnology ? The next phase of climate and energy diplomacy with China ? How China’s science and tech ambitions challenge European strengths ? Closing the gap between European capitals The conference is kindly supported by the Ausw?rtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany. We look forward to lively discussions and insightful exchanges.

Last Friday, China inaugurated a port for mega container ships in Peru – the newest building block in China’s global port network. If you want to know more about China’s global footprint in critical maritime infrastructures, then check out at our detailed and interactive map:? https://lnkd.in/eZ4HbY3j Dr. Clark N. Banach, Program Director at the Aletheia Research Institution and former MERICS Futures Fellow, and MERICS Lead Analyst Jacob Gunter have collected data on and covered the latest developments related to China’s global port network. In their analysis, they shed light on the aims behind China’s efforts in this sector, as well as implications for Europe. China Horizons – Research Consortium Kasper Ingeman Beck, PhD, Alicia Garcia-Herrero 艾西亞, Michal Krystyanczuk, Marcin Jacoby, @Jean-Fran?ois Di Meglio, Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-Baptiste MONNIER, PhD., Jean-Fran?ois Di Meglio, Jean-Louis Rocca, Stéphanie BALME (鲍佳佳), Mario Esteban and Alessia A. Amighini

In this MERICS China Essentials, we look at the impact of the US elections on transatlantic and European China policy, the possible tightening of US export controls following the discovery of Taiwanese high-performance chips in Huawei products, the Chinese government's latest stimulus package and the measures to raise the birth rate that are putting pressure on women.

Have you ever been frustrated because your expertise or research was not picked up by the media? Anja Wehler-Schoeck presented a list explaining how to create win-win situations for researchers and the media at the #WonkComms event last Wednesday at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS).