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CHOICE is an independent platform for monitoring & evaluating the influence of China in the CEE region. Designed and run by @AMO_cz. #ChinaObservers
Prague, Czech Republic
Joined February 2019
🚨New paper out!🕵️‍♀️In a unique investigation, CHOICE examined how Beijing could target EP assistants to gather intelligence & the structural vulnerabilities in the EP that create space for interference. Highlights & link👇 🔗 https://t.co/mm8JjupvVv 🎨 Interactive visualization
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🔉 Policy is coordinated across Party, state, companies, banks, and media – and can involve Chinese tourists, students, or diaspora members in Europe.
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🇨🇳is a proactive – not reactive – player, its approach to 🇪🇺is pragmatic & strategic. 🇨🇳sets 3 core aims: 1) keep🇪🇺 open to 🇨🇳trade and investment; 2) preserve access to advanced technology; 3) discourage 🇪🇺from aligning too closely with the 🇺🇸 on security & high-tech controls.
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🔉 China views Europe as plural and therefore influenceable, and tailors its influence tools accordingly.
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🎤In case you haven't watched @ivana_karaskova Karásková's testimony at the European Parliament yet, we bring you the full transcript 👉 https://t.co/otzxvNE5T6 Highlights🧵
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This is a transcript of Ivana Karásková's oral testimony for the European Parliament's AFET & EUDS public hearing on China’s influence in the European Union
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Spot on. This saga reminded me of an excellent piece written by @sehof for @chinaobservers about how 🇨🇳’s Global Civilization Iniative is designed to target (and silence) elites, with even a Prime Minister not exempt: “Whereas GDI and GSI target states with concrete incentives,
Can you imagine a foreign diplomat in China calling for the CPC Secretary-General to be “beheaded”? No — for basic human decency and diplomatic protocol And if any diplomat did that, their own government would sanction them long before China even expelled them There is no debate
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Shopov calls it a diversified toolbox of engagement — spanning governments, societies, and markets. Understanding it means rethinking how we interpret China’s rise. Read the full analysis: 📖 https://t.co/AIjN35wdZK
#Geopolitics #Europe #Influence #Strategy #ForeignPolicy #BRI
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Just until a few years ago, China’s strategy of penetration and positioning abroad seemed quite straightforward. It sought to engage elites at the state level i
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The takeaway? China isn’t replacing its old playbook — it’s augmenting it. A mix of top-down strategy and bottom-up improvisation makes Beijing’s influence more resilient and complex.
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Transition #6: From crude influence → adaptive statecraft. After a decade of learning, China’s external engagement is more sophisticated, coordinated, and locally responsive.
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Transition #5: From isolation to partnership. Beijing now co-opts others — Russia in disinformation, Hungary as a financial conduit, Serbia as a regional intermediary.
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Transition #4: From loans to ecosystems. State banks no longer act alone. Now it’s venture capital, private firms, AIIB, and joint ventures. A web of influence, not a single thread.
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Transition #3: From visibility to embedding. Instead of one-off projects, Chinese firms are positioning in key industries — AI, EVs, energy — across Central & Eastern Europe.
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Transition #2: From elites to societies. Language programs in kindergartens, cultural festivals, “friendly” university networks — China is building social infrastructure, not just physical.
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Transition #1: From states to cities. Beijing is engaging mayors, governors, and local councils — not just presidents. Local diplomacy = access to EU funds, weaker oversight, and deeper roots.
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For years, #China’s global strategy seemed simple: elite deals, big loans, Belt and Road. But as Vladimir Shopov writes, Beijing is now thinking differently. 13 transitions are reshaping how China projects power. 🧵 🔗 https://t.co/AIjN35wdZK
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Just until a few years ago, China’s strategy of penetration and positioning abroad seemed quite straightforward. It sought to engage elites at the state level i
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Read the full analysis: 👉 https://t.co/V4UGHBp4hV
#GenderEquality #China #WomenInTech #Feminism #Leadership #science
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For Li Aili, founder and chairwoman of Yuanhua Intelligent Technology, a pioneer in China’s medical robotics sector, innovation is not what the Chinese proverb
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🔬 Women make up 45.8% of China’s STEM workforce but only 6% of academy members. 🦹‍♀️ Feminist voices that challenge this contradiction – from the #MeToo movement to activists like Huang Xueqin – face increasing repression.
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👩‍🔬Xi Jinping celebrates women as “protagonists” of China’s modernization – yet his policies push them into domestic roles, urging a “new culture of marriage and parenting.” Full analysis on gender equality in China's STEM by @ElzePinelyte from @GSSC_LT👉 https://t.co/V4UGHBp4hV
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💼For CHOICE in Brussels, Emma Belmonte investigates why there is NO trace of the China-EU Parliamentary Meeting on Chinese official websites, social media & state media..🕵‍
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✍ Filip Čápek writes about China's presence in the #Czech election campaign, @RekaKoleszar examines the role of China policy in the next #Hungarian election, and Konrad Szatters compares Chinese and Russian influence in #Moldova's election.
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