Publications (Filter: China)
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China in the Global Economy: Leaping Dragon or Paper Tiger?
By some measures already the world’s biggest economy, China is seeking energetically to flex its muscles abroad by launching grand projects such as...
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Financial Repression and the Debt Build-up in China: Is There a Way Out?
China’s old recipe book for economic success, based on market distorting policies, is hindering the process toward a market-driven economy and the...
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Xi Jinping’s Long Road to Somewhere? China’s OBOR Initiative and how Europe Should Respond
The true nature and purpose of China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative are subject to much speculation. The one certainty is that OBOR commands...
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Assessing the Solar Energy Dispute between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China
Sylvain Plasschaert is Honorary Professor at the University of Antwerp and at the Catholic University of...
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The EU and China: Redressing: An Unbalanced Relationship
This paper is based on a presentation to a conference organised by the Hong Kong Baptist University and the European Union Academic...
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Turning China’s Money Reserves into Capital
Tags: ChinaSome economies in East Asia have built up large amounts of foreign exchange reserves in the past decades. Holding large amounts of reserves helped...
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The European Union’s China Policy: Priorities and Strategies for the New Commission
The arrival of a new European Commission is a good opportunity for Europe to re-consider its policy vis-à-vis China. Under Xi Jinping, China is...
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The Problematic Politics of China’s Economic Reform Plans
China is in a race against time to re-engineer its faltering economic model, famously described by Wen Jiabao, its last prime minister, as...
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The Impact of Data Localisation on China’s Economy
As the global economy grows increasingly digital, businesses rely on the free flow of data across borders to efficiently sell, produce and deliver...
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The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery
This paper aims to quantify the losses that result from data localisation requirements and related data privacy and security laws that discriminate...
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In Search of China’s Foreign Policy
This Policy Brief takes stock of recent developments and future trends in China’s foreign policy. It questions China’s progress in shaping its...
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What’s Next for EU-China Relations?
By: Fredrik ErixonPresident Xi’s visit to Brussels prompts the question: are China and the EU willing to rekindle their relationship, to fuse it with other energy...