The relations between the EU and China have become strained in the past few years. In the context of the US-China trade war and apparent decoupling processes the EU seems to face difficult choices. Atlantic loyalty or closer trade with China? A mediator role? The EU as a third power? The Merkel-government has been trying to strike a balance between the opposing sides and interests, but this policy might not be sustainable. How will the German elections affect Germany’s foreign policy? How might the presumably new German foreign policy shape EU-China relations? And what wider geopolitical implications we need to reckon with? These are the questions for the upcoming CHERN roundtable discussion with top experts.
The event took place on
December 6th, 2021
See a recording of the roundtable:
Speakers:
Nadine Godehardt
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Philippe Le Corre
Harvard Kennedy School
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
John Ryan
CESifo
Nadine Godehardt is Senior Associate of the Research Division Asia at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, SWP) in Berlin. She frequently travels to Asia and has worked extensively on China’s foreign policy discourse and global connectivity politics. Nadine holds a PhD (Dr. phil.) in Political Science from the University of Hamburg and she obtained a Master Degree in Political Science, Philosophy and Sinology at the University of Tuebingen.
Selected publications:
- Kohlenberg, P. J., & Godehardt, N. (2020). Locating the ‘South’in China’s connectivity politics. Third World Quarterly, 1-19.
- Kohlenberg, P. J., & Godehardt, N. (Eds.). (2021). The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics. Routledge.
- (in German) https://www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/wie-china-weltpolitik-formt
Philippe Le Corre is a Research Fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School and a nonresident Senior Fellow with the Asia and Europe Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as a Fellow with The Brookings Institution, and as a Senior Adviser to the French Minister of Defense. Previously, he also reported from China and Southeast Asia as a Foreign Correspondent for a decade. His work includes China’s Offensive in Europe (Brookings Press, 2016), and various reports and papers such as:
- China’s influence in Southeastern, Central and Eastern Europe. Vulnerabilities and Resilience, Carnegie (2021)
- Europe’s Tightrope diplomacy on China, Carnegie, March 2021
- China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for Europe, in China-US-Europe Relations in a New Era (editors: Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø, Wang Dong), Routledge, (2020)
- China’s Challenging Year in Europe, Echo Wall, November 2020
- How the coronavirus pandemic shattered Europe’s illusions of China, July 9, 2020 (with Erik Brattberg)
- The Case for Transatlantic Cooperation in Indo-Pacific, Carnegie Working Paper, December 18, 2019 (with Erik Brattberg)
- China’s rise as a geo-economic influencer: Four European case studies, Carnegie Working Paper, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (October 2018)
Personal website
Twitter: @plecorre@yahoo.com
Professor John Ryan is a Network Research Fellow at CESifo, Munich, Germany. He is a Senior Partner at a consultancy which advises private and public sector organizations on COVID-19/Brexit contingency planning. He previously was a Fellow at LSE IDEAS – London School of Economics and Political Science and St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. His work includes discourse on the Renminbi’s role in a tripolar monetary regime and the impact of Brexit on China’s foreign policy in relation to the EU and UK.
Publications: https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/JohnRyan/Papers
