FSS-DGPA seminar: "China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation: Successful or Declining?" by Prof. Rudolf FÜRST, 14th November 2019 (Thursday)), 16:00-17:15, E21-G002
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Department of Government and Public Administration, FSS
Jean Monnet Chair Speakers Series “Macao Talk on European Politics”
China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation: Successful or Declining?
Speaker:
Prof. Rudolf FÜRST
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for EU-Asia Relations
Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague, Czech Republic

Date:14th November 2019 (Thursday)
Time:16:00-17:15
Venue:E21-G002, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Language:English
Speaker:
Prof. Rudolf FÜRST is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Centre for EU-Asia Relations, Institute of International Relations (IIR), Prague, Czech Republic. He has got a PhD in Political Science from Charles University, Prague. His research areas include Sino-European relations, relations of East-Central Europe (ECE) with China, post-Communism and the politics of transition, Western soft power in ECE and China, and discourse analysis. He has published widely in these areas, both as academic publication and policy analyses.

Abstract:
The sub-regional format of 16 CEE states with China is increasingly perceived by international audiences as both obsolete and subverting the EU internal unity. The group of 16 CEE states is being exposed to reserve overtones from the EU, and the rising disappointment from the CEE states – except of Balkans – about the stagnating investment and trade agenda with China is being heard from the Visegrad 4 (mainly from Warsaw, Prague and Bratislava), and Baltic states. The Balkans received the comparatively most relevant Chinese investments into infrastructure and energy sector. It seems now that the Chinese investments into Mediterranean logistics and seaports altogether with moving the focus of the 16+1 to the Balkans will altogether shift the Chinese regional strategy towards the European South. From the perspectives of the CEE states the sub-regional format with China is stagnating, however its expanding into 17+1 by adding Greece reveals a paradox of its potential.



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