School visit to the Artevelde School of Journalism in Ghent 20 October 2024 - On October 16, Victor De Decker, a research fellow in Geoeconomics at the Egmont Institute, delivered an lecture to bachelor students at the Artevelde School of Journalism in Ghent. The lecture focused on the rise of China as a global… Read more
Second school visit done: Discussing China with students in Vienna 17 October 2024 - As announced earlier on this website, ReConnect China experts are starting to get involved in school visits across Europe since September. On October 14, the second (after the March school visit by Victor De Decker in Aalst, Belgium) these school… Read more
ReConnect China Roundtable at the 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies 11 September 2024 - Key achievements of ReConnect China research at Europe's main scientific conference on China From 27 to 30 August 2024, the ‘European Association for Chinese Studies’ held its 25th Biennial Conference in Tallinn, Estonia. Our project was present with a roundtable… Read more
ReConnect China Policy Brief 14: Getting China Onboard a Global Debt Governance System 6 September 2024 - China has become the number one provider of development finance in the world. Because of its significant share in Low and Middle Income Countries’ (LMICs) external debt, China should take up responsibilities and cooperate with traditional development finance providers, but… Read more
Two more ReConnect China MOOCs started on September 2! 5 September 2024 - Following up on the first two ReConnect China MOOCs on China's politics and society and EU-China relations, having started in January and February 2024 respectively, we are proud to announce the launch of MOOC courses no. 3 and 4. … Read more
Reconnect China Policy Brief 13: EU’s Technical Dependencies towards China 3 September 2024 - In recent years, the European Union (EU) has increasingly relied on China for critical technologies, pivotal for its digital and green transition. As the market of electric vehicles (EV) grows rapidly, demand for critical inputs has also soared, including lithium-ion… Read more
ReConnect China Policy Brief 12: Knowledge and Perception of Research Security 23 August 2024 - Research security was high on the agenda of the outgoing European Commission as evidenced by a series of policy documents, most notably in the Economic Security Strategy package put forward in May 2024. Research security can only be effective if… Read more
ReConnect China Podcast: ‘EU–China Relations after the 2024 European Elections’ 12 July 2024 - In this ‘ReConnect China’ Podcast, Bart Dessein and Jasper Roctus shed light on the composition of the European Parliament after the 2024 European elections, and how this might translate into the EU’s China policies. Against the background of a shift… Read more Start of ReConnect China school visits in September 12 July 2024 - During the project's first review meeting with independent experts in January 2024 in Brussels, the project consortium was recommended to intensify its engagement with youth as one of the project's key target groups. As a result from follow-up discussions within… Read more ReConnect China Policy Brief 11: The Chinese AI Innovation Ecosystem 27 June 2024 - Based on its 2017 development plan for Artificial Intelligence (AI), China aims to become the world's main AI innovation centre by 2030. To achieve this goal, China’s strategy is to cultivate an open and sharing AI innovation ecosystem through the… Read more