@chinaobservers.bsky.social 🚗🔋Chinese EV and battery manufacturers expand across CEE & reshape the region's automotive future. But what opportunities and risks does this transformation bring? ✍️Ágnes Szunomár explores various implications: 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/green-transi...

@chinaobservers.bsky.social 🤔 Could Andrej Babiš's return to power reshape Czechia's approach to China? @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social explores what is changing and what is not.✍ Read the article 👉 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/is-a-czech-c...

🎙️Why is #China advancing its civilian & military #nuclear capabilities? 📈In this episode of China Observers, Emma Belmonte talks to Tong Zhao (@carnegieendowment.org) and Paulína Ovečková (@amo.cz) about China's rapid development in nuclear energy. 🎧 Listen👉 chinaobservers.eu/chinas-nucle...

@chinaobservers.bsky.social 💸Chinese FDI is making its way to Europe, and we need to learn how to deal with it. @sensehofstede.nl analyzes Europe's options and explains what 💡lessons can be taken from SE Asia, which experienced previous waves of Chinese FDI. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-eu-needs...

@chinaobservers.bsky.social ✍ Paulína Ovečková writes about China's #nuclear energy expansion. Learn: 1️⃣ Why #China struggles to sell its reactors abroad 2️⃣ Why #Beijing sets unrealistic nuclear targets 3️⃣ How nuclear exports create decades-long #dependency 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/the-one-unsu...

@chinaobservers.bsky.social ✍️CHOICE Fellow Stefan Vladisavljev writes about key changes in Serbia-China relations. Main takeaway? Cooperation moved from🏗️ infrastructure to🤖 AI, tech, and nuclear energy agreements, with📉less overall investment. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/serbias-new-...

@chinaobservers.bsky.social In 2025, #Azerbaijan joined the Central Asian Consultative Meeting (C5), turning it into #C6. Ioseb Dzamukashvili Sekhniashvili explains what it means. 🔗https://chinaobservers.eu/azerbaijan-and-the-c6-fueling-a-strategic-autonomy-pivot-in-central-asia/

✍ @bajramgeci.bsky.social presents the underexplored relations between China & Kosovo. A must-read about how China's support for Serbia, a state that most actively contests Kosovo’s international position, is reflected in Kosovo's China policy and more... 👇 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/not-recogniz...

🧊Looking for a way to escape the summer heat? Today’s CHOICE article takes you to the Arctic, where Matti Puranen and Sasu Katajamäki explore China's growing focus on the region. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/from-space-t...

📬Every first Thursday of the month, we send out a newsletter focused on current China-related developments, with contributions of multiple experts in the topic. If you would like to receive the newsletter this Thursday, subscribe here👉 amo.ecomailapp.cz/public/form/...

Today at CHOICE, @messingschlager.bsky.social examines how Europe’s China policy is increasingly shaped by a new challenge: access to reliable evidence. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/when-the-evi... Takeaways 👇

🎙️How is AI (quite literally) reshaping faces in China? In today’s episode of China Observers, Emma Belmonte dives into the world of surveillance, facial recognition, and the cosmetic surgery boom with Margaret Hillenbrand and Xuenan Cao. Listen👉 chinaobservers.eu/the-future-o...

✍️Nino Lezhava takes a closer look at Hualing Group's influence in Georgia and uses the example to reveal the broader dynamics of China's influence. Read the article 👉 chinaobservers.eu/a-private-co...

🤝We are grateful to all participants, experts, and organizers who contributed to making this year's Future CHOICE Summer School a valuable and inspiring experience. ☺️

🎓 The program also offered one-on-one mentoring sessions, networking, and cultural exchange, bringing together a new generation of professionals interested in China, Europe, and global affairs.

🌍 This year's theme, Europe's Indo-Pacific Dilemma, focused on the broader implications of instability in the #IndoPacific for Europe. Through expert sessions, discussions, and interactive simulations, participants explored key geopolitical challenges shaping today's world.

🧑‍🎓In the beginning of June, @amo.cz welcomed 18 young professionals from across Europe to in Kutná Hora, Czechia for a 5-day program.

Today we are looking back to the third edition of the #FutureCHOICE #SummerSchool! Find out all about it👉 chinaobservers.eu/future-choic... Long story short 👇

Today at CHOICE, @sensehofstede.nl maps Chinese military diplomacy in CEE👇 👀 Read the piece and see the interactive map🗺️ with names and ranks of PLA defense attachés 👉 chinaobservers.eu/why-cee-is-i... 🧵

🌍 Is Europe facing its "Macedonian moment"? ✍@vanbergheneu.bsky.social en explores the implications of the Trump–Xi summit for Europe’s strategic future. 👉As Washington and Beijing move toward managing rivalry through interdependence, space remains for the EU... 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/trump-xi-and...

✍ Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin right after meeting Donald Trump. In a must-read for all following the China-Russia cooperation and the war in Ukraine, Vita Golod writes about what this meeting means for Ukraine. 👉 chinaobservers.eu/what-the-lat... Originally published by The Diplomat.

🗺️ Today we bring an illuminating comparison of CEE perspectives on China's newest Five-Year Plan by Selena Orly. ✍ Read the article and find out how the 15th FYP is perceived in different capitals & how it impacts their China policy👉 chinaobservers.eu/cee-receptio...

🗨️We continued with one-on-one mentoring sessions. Participants consulted our experts Prof. Dr. May-Britt Stumbaum, @lionelfatton.bsky.social, @alicakizekova.bsky.social and @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social with their current career trajectories. The participants returned motivated by many new insights!

🎮Paulína Ovečková ran a crisis simulation & put players in the shoes of US, China, Russia, Japan & France, as they navigated a tense confrontation over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The excitement in the room was a reminder that global crises become different when you're the one making the decisions.

🌞Day 3 of #FutureCHOICE #SummerSchool started with a spot-on lecture by Professor Dr. May-Britt U. Stumbaum (The SPEAR Institute), who presented the military & political perspectives of how an Indo-Pacific conflict could affect Europe. @amo.cz

🖼️ We closed the day with a tour of the Jesuit College Art Exhibitions and a group dinner wrapped up the evening. The AMO team can't wait look forward to the days ahead! 🚀

⚡Then we experienced a city-wide electricity blackout! Ass. Prof. @lionelfatton.bsky.social (Webster University, Meiji University), delivered his lecture on Japan's Indo-Pacific Playbook in a very unique outside setting.

🎲 We followed with an Indo-Pacific crisis simulation moderated by AMO's @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social and Paulína Ovečková and a tour of St. Barbara's Cathedral.⛪

👉Day 2 was opened by Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs at @isdp-sweden.bsky.social, with a session on Europe's role in the Indo-Pacific enhanced by insights from India.

👉 Day 1 started strong with a thought-provoking keynote address by H.E. Jakub Landovský, the Czech Government's Special Envoy for the Fulfillment of Obligations towards NATO.