The European Council on Foreign Relations

Welcome to the new homepage for ECFR's China programme. Our work examines the challenges that face China at this time of great change, and the decisions made in Beijing that then have a great impact in Europe and across the world. Please explore the various parts of the China programme and its publications, commentary pieces and other material using the tabs above, or click on the video below for an explanation of what we call 'China 3.0' by ECFR's director, Mark Leonard.

ECFR's China programme has published 'China 3.0: What does the new China think and what does it mean for Europe?', a unique collection of essay by China's most prominent thinkers. The publication provides an unrivalled insight into the big debates that are taking place within Chinese elites about the future of China’s growth model, its political system and its foreign policy. The authors argue that China could be on the verge of a change as significant as Mao Zedong’s communist revolution (China 1.0) and Deng Xiaoping’s market revolution (China 2.0).