The Asia programme seeks to help Europe recalibrate its relationship with China and its Asian partners. The programme analyses China’s domestic situation, its role in the region and its increasing influence around the world and put a renewed emphasis on fostering Europe’s relationships with the Indo-Pacific, especially India and Japan.
The EU has the ambition and potential to become a sovereign digital power, but it lacks an all-encompassing strategy for the sector, in which individual governments are still the key players
The EU urgently needs to incorporate the concept and reality of the ‘protected home market advantage’ into its thinking on China
As European and US ambivalence towards the Western Balkans persists, the region will be in increasing danger of falling into an endless spiral of competition between various foreign actors
What are the prospects for a closer EU-India relationship following the upcoming EU-India Leaders Summit?
The EU has the ambition and potential to become a sovereign digital power, but it lacks an all-encompassing strategy for the sector, in which individual governments are still the key players
How would a (partially) Green government affect German foreign policy?
Friends and foes alike will pay careful attention to the contents of the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy. On the current reading, Europe’s friends in particular may be disappointed.
China’s growing assertiveness is already driving closer cooperation among democracies. The EU should now incorporate the Quad more directly into its strategic thinking and activity.
The EU urgently needs to incorporate the concept and reality of the ‘protected home market advantage’ into its thinking on China
China’s recent personal and economic sanctions have sent a strong message to Europeans, but there are concrete ways for the EU to build up its resilience against economic coercion
How can Europe adapt its strategies for multilateralism in this competitive world and what would they look like?
On the path to Germany’s 5G network rollout, Berlin has made a misguided investment in Open RAN, an unproven telecoms industry concept that promises much but has so far produced little
China is ramping up the pressure on European decision-makers, academics, and companies. The EU must move quickly to build its resilience against such economic coercion.
The EU has the ambition and potential to become a sovereign digital power, but it lacks an all-encompassing strategy for the sector, in which individual governments are still the key players
The EU urgently needs to incorporate the concept and reality of the ‘protected home market advantage’ into its thinking on China
As European and US ambivalence towards the Western Balkans persists, the region will be in increasing danger of falling into an endless spiral of competition between various foreign actors
As climate action becomes more material to economic interests, Europe and China will both compete and cooperate with each other, against the backdrop of an overarching systemic rivalry
Europe should upgrade its security activities, and seize the moment to push multilateral institutions up the agenda. But it will be Europe’s connectivity agenda that provides the golden thread running through its foreign policy and its other objectives in the region.
In its remaining months, the German Council presidency could use this momentum to create institutional structures to improve the EU’s capacity to act
The crisis is intensifying demands for Europe to puts its China policy on a more open, accountable, and values-based footing
Europeans should monitor China’s influence on regional stability and political dynamics, especially in relation to surveillance technology and arms sales
Introduction François Godement Developments in the digital and artificial intelligence arenas in China have attracted so much hype abroad that…
China’s priorities are shifting towards the containment of security threats in its region, and Europe should capitalise on this trend
Friends and foes alike will pay careful attention to the contents of the EU’s Indo-Pacific strategy. On the current reading, Europe’s friends in particular may be disappointed.
China’s growing assertiveness is already driving closer cooperation among democracies. The EU should now incorporate the Quad more directly into its strategic thinking and activity.
China’s recent personal and economic sanctions have sent a strong message to Europeans, but there are concrete ways for the EU to build up its resilience against economic coercion
On the path to Germany’s 5G network rollout, Berlin has made a misguided investment in Open RAN, an unproven telecoms industry concept that promises much but has so far produced little
China is ramping up the pressure on European decision-makers, academics, and companies. The EU must move quickly to build its resilience against such economic coercion.
China’s new strategy for achieving economic self-reliance and geopolitical dominance poses an unprecedented challenge to the West
The Biden administration has made clear that it will not shift away from the tougher approach on China. But the latest sanctions row has demonstrated that Europe is not without agency in what has falsely been characterised as a binary confrontation.
Making cyber security an integral part of a European approach to the Indo-Pacific could provide a framework for cooperation with EU partners in the region
The German government’s 5G security plan tacitly allows Huawei to embed itself in domestic telecom networks – with great implications for Europe’s defence and security
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
Indians are many, as are their demands, aspirations, and ideas
Taiwan’s experience with fighting the coronavirus has shown that there is a way in overcoming pandemics without sacrificing fundamental values like democracy, freedom and human rights
How is the coronavirus crisis reshaping India’s geopolitics? Amid tensions with China, the US' global withdrawal as well as hyper-globalisation, C. Raja Mohan, Director of the Insitute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, calls for a new compact between India and the West to produce a new world order for the 21st century.
Powerhouse, menace or next Japan? Arthur R. Kroeber, founder of the Gavekal Dragonomics research service and editor of China Economic Quarterly, explains where China's economy might be heading.
Minxin Pei, Director of the Keck Center, explains whether China might become a democracy, or whether it's more likely that China will become a more authoritarian state
Former Federal President of Germany, Christian Wulff, on Japan-EU relations
Jonathan Fenby, Co-Founder of Trusted Sources, explains whether reforms in the Chinese market are likely and why progress is stagnating
Nick Witney, the co-author of the ECFR's publication, "Rebooting EU Foreign Policy", and Spiros Economides of the LSE, both explain why the European Union sorely needs to face reality and fundamentally rethink how it deals with the rest of the world
What are the prospects for a closer EU-India relationship following the upcoming EU-India Leaders Summit?
How would a (partially) Green government affect German foreign policy?
How can Europe adapt its strategies for multilateralism in this competitive world and what would they look like?
Dr Janka Oertel discusses with Dr Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp and Bonji Ohara the cooperation in the field of cybersecurity between two of the US closest allies
What lies behind China’s dual circulation strategy? How will the EU approach all of this? And are European policy-makers really prepared to deal with this new challenge coming from China?
What are the prospects for transatlantic cooperation on China now that a new US administration is in power?
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
Can Europe compete in today’s new geopolitical realities? Does the Union find itself in a technology war with China? And are at least cooperative solutions…
Last year, the European Union published a strategic outlook in which it reviewed China as a partner, competitor and a strategic rival, creating a lively…
Covid-19 has upended life as we know it. While affecting business and politics within Europe, it also brings about a new set of questions with…
A coalition with the conservatives as suggested by polls would see continuity in German foreign policy but with “different nuances” on China, believes Jana Puglierin,
Tara Varma discusses EU-India relations in this podcast by the State Chancellery of the city of Hamburg.
Janka Oertel comments on China’s behaviour and the arms race in the Indo-Pacific.
