Whose Line Is It Anyway? Whose Line Is It Anyway? With Chinese loans, Hungary plans to upgrade a 160-kilometer railway line from the capital of Budapest south to the Serbian border at a cost of 2.89 billion dollars. But why? 10:39 am | August 8, 2019 By Ákos Keller-Alánt / Initium
Plus One Memorandum of Misunderstanding By some accounts countries in Central and Eastern Europe have grown weary of grand promises of Chinese investment and trade gains that have failed to materialize. 08:30 am | August 8, 2019 By Echowall Staff
The Living Past Looking Back on Strategic Partnership As China celebrates the 70th anniversary of relations with Russia and “unprecedented” friendship, the record in the Chinese press tells a more complex story. 12:06 am | July 25, 2019 By Qian Gang
State of Mind What Makes Angela Merkel Cry? When it comes to Europe’s relationship with China, perceptions in the Chinese social media space could be too important to ignore. 10:30 pm | July 18, 2019 By Zhu Yi
Currents in Context Connecting a Country, Dividing Opinion China and Croatia say bidding for the Pelješac Bridge was fair. Messaging from both countries only fuels suspicion that other factors are at play. 08:00 pm | July 18, 2019 By David Bandurski
Plus One Czech Inventor, Chinese Investor: A Cautionary Tale A fever for investment from China in the Czech Republic in recent years led to lack of vigilance over forced technology transfers and hostile takeovers. 07:30 pm | July 18, 2019 By Martin Hala
Knowledge Gaps Good Money, Bad Money Can we really discuss the factors behind France’s “Yellow Vest” movement and other European upheavals without addressing the role of China in a globalized world? 06:40 pm | July 18, 2019 By Qin Hui
State of Mind The Birth of a Foreign Policy Catchphrase The journey of “community of common destiny” to the center of China’s foreign policy lexicon has been years in the making. 04:45 pm | July 18, 2019 By Qian Gang
Knowledge Gaps Community and “Discourse Power” How has the Chinese notion of a “community of common destiny for humankind” been received in France? The short answer is that is hasn’t been. But the language isn’t exactly unfamiliar either. 03:50 pm | July 18, 2019 By Sebastian Veg and Mathieu Duchâtel