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Analyses | | Franciszek Tyszka

Controversy over the construction of a Chinese university campus in Budapest

Since 6 April, when the Hungarian investigative news website Direkt36 published detailed information about the construction of a campus of China’s prestigious Fudan University, there have been ongoing disputes whether this investment is…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec, Jakub Jakóbowski

China excluded from a Czech nuclear tender

On 27 January Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) held a meeting with the leaders of the parliamentary parties about the expansion of the Dukovany nuclear power plant, at which only the Communists failed to agree to exclude the Chinese…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec

A crisis in the Czech Republics relations with China and Russia

The past few weeks have exposed tensions in the Czech Republic’s contacts with China and Russia, revealing a crisis of bilateral relations that has been worsening for years. These tensions were escalated by the symbolic gestures made by…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec, Jakub Groszkowski, Michał Bogusz, Jakub Jakóbowski

The Czech-Chinese dispute over Huawei and ZTE

For several weeks there has been a public debate in the Czech Republic on possible threats to national security posed by the manufacturers of Chinese telecommunications equipment. Discussion on this subject was initiated by the National…
Analyses | | Krzysztof Dębiec, Jakub Jakóbowski

Chinese investments in the Czech Republic changing the expansion model

The serious financial problems of the private company CEFC China Energy have affected the company’s activities in the Czech Republic.
Analyses | | Jakub Jakóbowski, Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Marcin Kaczmarski

The ChinaCentral and Eastern Europe summit a new vision of cooperation old instruments

One of the principal aims underlying China’s development of the ‘16+1’ format is to increase its soft power in Europe.
Analyses | | Jakub Groszkowski

An attempt at a new start in Czech-Chinese relations

The visit of Czech president in China is another step in Prague's strategy to intensify relations with Beijing.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski

Bucharest the prime ministers of China and the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe meet

So far the intensification of political contacts has not been accompanied by the dynamic influx of Chinese investment which the region’s governments expected.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

Chinas interest in investing in South-Eastern Europe still growing

On 19 October the Chinese corporation China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group entered into an agreement for access to confidential information concerning the development of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. During that same week,…
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Hungarys BorsodChem becomes part of a Chinese petrochemical giant

The Chinese company Wanhua Industrial Group took over full control of the Hungarian chemical corporation BorsodChem for a price of USD 1.6 billion on 1 February. This way the world’s third largest manufacturer of isocyanates (TDI) has…