Don’t Look Down: How Europeans can Escape China’s Clean-tech gravity

Don’t look down draws on analysis from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Poland to examine national-level debates over the tension between accelerating Europe’s clean energy transition and reducing reliance on Chinese clean-tech supply chains. The paper maps how domestic politics and economic exposure to China shape national positions on this dilemma, and what this implies for sustaining a durable European coalition in support of both climate ambition and economic security.

The policy brief and its key findings will be presented, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.