In 2019, when the Italian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Italy was – and still is – the only member of the G7 to do so. Four years later Italy's Belt and Road romance is coming to an end. The current Italian government does not consider […]
Next week China holds its 3rd Belt and Road Forum, celebrating the initiative’s 10th anniversary. We take this as an opportunity to have a closer look at China's huge infrastructure project together with the economist and former FCCC member Christoph Nedopil. About the speaker: Christoph Nedopil is the director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a […]
The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism’s triumph. The Chinese […]
A talk by Jude Blanchette, who holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The talk will focus on: the upcoming Xi-Biden meeting at APEC, Taiwan relations, and then the upcoming US presidential election season and what it means for short- and near-term calculations for Washington and […]
