Category: Asia
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Xi Jinping visits Saudi Arabia and participates in the first China-Arab States Summit and the first China-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit
Author: Marián Šeliga Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of oil to China and China is the largest trade partner of Saudi Arabia. The visit of Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia comes two months after Riyadh angered USA by advocating big oil-production cut within OPEC+ organization. The Chinese president’s three-day state visit to Saudi Arabia in…
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China’s economy faces unprecedented challenges
Author: Marián Šeliga The Chinese top political event of this year is over. But China’s economy needs to cope with serious challenges to stay afloat. These days, much attention has been paid to China’s main political event – the 20th Congress of the Communist Party, which re-elected Xi Jinping as head of the CPC for another…
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Xi’s reelection: implications for China and the world
Author: Marián Šeliga If Xi Jinping is re-elected for a third term, it is highly likely that the EU and the US will intensify the policy of economic and technological decoupling from China. Xi Jinping is expected to be granted a third term as general secretary of the Communist party at the upcoming 20th CCP Congress,…
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Sino-US rivalry for technological superiority reaches its peak in the semiconductor industry
Photo by: Adobe stock Author: Marián Šeliga The aim of this article is to shed light on the following issues: Semiconductors and the unique role of Taiwanese TSMC in their production. China’s unprecedented progress in semiconductor manufacturing and its attempt to achieve self-sufficiency in chip manufacturing. Creation of the New “Chip 4 Alliance”. The US government’s…
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Xi Jinping to meet with V. Putin at the SCO summit
Author: Marián Šeliga As part of his first foreign visit since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Xi will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan. Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which will be held in Samarkand (Uzbekistan) on September 15-16. According to news agencies,…
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Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Dilemma
Author: Prof. Duncan McCampbell The visit to Taiwan by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered Beijing and led to a series of aggressive Chinese military manoeuvres that have people talking again about war. Less discussed is how Pelosi’s visit exposed an insoluble problem for Xi Jinping. Xi places “re-uniting” Taiwan with the Mainland as his top…
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China’s BRI in the Central and Eastern Europe (II).
Photo by: http://www.dailysabah.com Author: Marián Šeliga Slovakia and Poland: competition for cargo routes The war in Ukraine has plunged BRI projects in the CEE region into great uncertainty. Against this background the prospects of the BRI projects as well as the planned investments in the region look somehow bleak and unclear. In the second article in…
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