OUR TOPIC

In today’s episode, we discuss ways in which geopolitics increasingly affects global connectivity, how China’s connectivity proposal compares to that of the EU, and what should the EU do in the context of connectivity becoming a battleground for Sino-American rivalry. It is through this lens that we will take a look at the Central and Eastern Europe (including the EU’s Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood) to see how those dynamics play out in practice.

OUR GUEST

Jakub Jakóbowski in the Coordinator of the Connectivity in Eurasia Project, as well as a Senior Fellow at the China Programme in the Centre  for Eastern Studies, a public think-tank based in Warsaw. He specializes in China's international political economy, as  well as CEE-China and EU-China relations. We highly recommend his report 'The Silk  Railroad. The EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests' as well as his publications on the China-CEE 17+1 format.

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