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[EU-China Hub @euchinahub]

[NEW NEWSLETTER]

We are excited to launch the MERICS #EU-#China Weekly Review: Sharp and timely analysis of essential EU-China developments.

Subscribe now to receive the first issue next Wednesday (January 13th).

✉️ SIGN UP: https://t.co/OCqZIrUgv9

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Honoured to be named one of @POLITICOEurope #Power40 - top politics/policy influencers in Brussels.

Looking forward to more 🇪🇺🇨🇳work ahead as discussions on updating #EU's #China policy/de-risking pick up!
https://t.co/VlAobWz8Cv

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#EU #CHINA REPORT

As #EUCO debates China, check new @merics_eu report

With @ChimitsF & @Fraghiretti we:
📍Assess 2019 Strategic Outlook implementation
📍Propose Outlook's action points update
📍3 policy action baskets: De-risk, Engage, Coordinate

🔗https://t.co/Xtm9y2lGUH
🧵/8

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Pleasure to write for @thewirechina on #EU's #China policy after @EmmanuelMacron's interview

📍His points: ill-timed, problematic
📍EU unity: Not as bleak as seems
📍Silver lining: New urgency to discuss🇨🇳
📍Start w/@vonderleyen's de-risking

TL;DR? See🧵
https://t.co/3YXA6eRbab

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#EU's de-risking #China policy agenda needs to be comprehensive to be effective.

In this piece, together with @m_huotari @merics_eu, we argue that the 🇪🇺 should develop its de-risking 🇨🇳 policy starting from 6⃣ priorities.

🧵follows:
https://t.co/bNaUjwouXS

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

6️⃣ priorities for #derisking #EU 🇪🇺 relations with #China 🇨🇳

Excited to contribute a piece on that topic together with @m_huotari to the upcoming issue of @IPQuarterly.

I look forward to reading pieces by other featured great colleagues.

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Glad to be quoted in this important piece on dynamics of #EU's #China policy discussions and happy to see the "Pandora's box" reference making it into the title.

Thank you for the invitation @AlexandravonNah @DeutscheWelle

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#MERICS Europe-China 360°

⭐️🇨🇳 experts debate EU's geopolitical standing & EU-China amid #Russia's war on #Ukraine
⭐️ #EU-#China high-level visits line-up

📍Short takes (EU-China Summit, anti-subsidies, TikTok, Hungary on peace plan)

🤝@Fraghiretti
🔗https://t.co/DQyv14Lmhe

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Excited to release op-ed at @POLITICOEurope

My key points:
📍#China doesn't have a constructive #EU agenda; it pursues strategic stalling

📍Its goals - to limit:
1⃣EU-#US/#NATO/#G7 China coordination
2⃣Restrictions on access to EU tech
3⃣And to EU market
https://t.co/67eO0NISf5

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Great pleasure to talk to @fbermingham @SCMPNews on the impact of #Russia's war on 🇪🇺EU-🇨🇳China.

💬My bottom line: “The negative impact of the invasion on the #EU’s thinking on #China is here to stay, even if the relations stabilize in the short term”
https://t.co/hUM99q9oXc

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

My take: the theme of 🇪🇺#EU-#China 🇨🇳 in 2023 will be balancing between tactical stabilisations and maintained strategic divergence.

Thank you for the invitation @chinaobservers @KaraNemeckova!

🎧Spotify: https://t.co/9vNXzInr2b
🎧Apple podcast: https://t.co/AFB659tWUu

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

A day of discussions on #FIMI organised by @eu_eeas #StratCom

📍@JosepBorrellF & @VeraJourova appeared
📍FIMI analysis centre announced (🇷🇺🇨🇳 to be analysed)
📍🇨🇳 still much less prominent in talks
📍points on data sharing, resources, enforcement and emotions-based communication

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#MERICS European China Talent Program 2023 -Applications open!

🔗https://t.co/aHMnocrVnQ
🗓️September 12-15, Berlin
⚠️App deadline: March 3

Join ~15 European early career scholars/professionals to talk key China trends

Excited to be organizing this together w/ Lisa Kuke 🙌

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#MERICS Europe-China 360° - Jan '23

⭐️#EU-#China relations under 🇸🇪 presidency
⭐️ Profile: Fu Cong – 🇨🇳 new Ambassador to 🇪🇺

📍Short takes (EU-NATO declaration, Rare earths in SE, CN overtakes GER as car exporter, NL chip restrictions)
🤝@Fraghiretti
https://t.co/3S0aWFidcT

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

New EU-China Opinion Pool: Calibrating #EU's #interdependence with #China

With insights from:
📍 Jörg Wuttke |@EuropeanChamber
📍@milugrad |@BusinessEurope
📍@FriedoStrack |@Der_BDI
📍 Jürgen Matthes |@iw_koeln
📍@Fraghiretti & @ChimitsF |@merics_eu

🔗https://t.co/mWM4Mh9uAi

[Benjamin Hartmann @bhartmann]

Bringing worldwide expertise on China: The European Commission launches a Fellowship Programme on China to foster strategic cooperation with think tanks and universities on China-related issues. The goal is to tap into deep expertise on China from Europe and beyond and expand /..

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

It was a pleasure to join @AllyCarragher and @fbermingham at @Carnegie_Europe yesterday.

Quoted below is a quick readout thread.

Check out Allisson's report on challenges of EU tender policies in the context of 🇨🇳 CRBC construction of 🇭🇷Pelješac bridge: https://t.co/SKby0BEMA0

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

#MERICS Europe-China 360° - Dec 8

⭐️#EU-#China 2022 audit: Trials and tribulations
⭐️Managing dependencies on China: Update

📍Short takes (🇩🇪&🇫🇷new strategies; WTO dispute; UK ends golden era; 🇨🇳CEE outreach; 🇨🇿presidential race)
@merics_eu @Fraghiretti
https://t.co/dXadVFcuPb

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

@NATO discussed #China in Bucharest yesterday, here's the reverse.

Jin Ling(金玲), senior MFA-linked think tanker, says:

📍NATO is primarily US hegemony tool
📍Exclusive alliance & global partners concepts contradict
📍NATO may disrupt Asia-Pacific security

How🇨🇳sees #NATO?🧵

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Interestingly, such accusations may be treated by Beijing as vindication of 🇨🇳 think tankers expectations of "🇪🇺🇺🇸 contradictions" following Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Beijing will seek to exploit this dynamic.

Throwback to my analysis from August: https://t.co/A1k38Q40PT

[Grzegorz (Greg) Stec @grzestec]

Xi🇨🇳's diplomacy is increasingly about #struggle #斗争

Wang Yiwei, a top intellectual on Xi's Thought, says:

📍West misrepresents China’s struggle as aggressiveness
📍Goal: change international order
📍It's a historical necessity

With whom & how does #China want to struggle?🧵