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CHERN’s second Newsletter arrives in the wake of the successful launch of our 1st Online Series, a highly successful workshop on "China’s Soft Power in Europe", a lecture on "Uneven and Combined (State) Capitalism" and much more.
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We are very happy to see that CHERN is getting more and more known, and that Network participation is growing. Our newsletter now reaches around 120 people and we expect that to increase significantly in the coming months. In addition, we have welcomed many new Working Group members in recent months. Other highlights evident in this Newsletter are the launch of CHERN’s Policy Briefs series and the forthcoming Working Group 2 workshop for policy and stakeholder personnel on China’s Digital Power. As the era when it was sufficient for researchers to communicate their research merely to other researchers is ending (with, in some countries, increasing pressure on academics to demonstrate the public impact of their research), we urge all members to consider converting their research into policy/stakeholder relevant formats. Our Policy Briefs are a good way of doing this. They are distributed among a wide variety of policy and stakeholder personnel at national and EU levels, as well as to the mainstream media. Communication of this sort is a vital part of CHERN’s remit and we encourage members to contact us about the possibilities for converting their research into Policy Briefs.
For those with ideas for a Policy Brief, please contact CHERN Vice Chair Jeffrey Henderson in the first instance at jeffrey.henderson@bristol.ac.uk
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Adapting to the new way of meeting and enhancing ideas during the global pandemic, in January 2021 CHERN launched its Online Series.
The Online Series was kicked off with a CHERN distinguished lecture on global China by Prof. Ho-fung Hung entitled US-China Rivalry in Historical, Comparative and European Contexts. The lecture was attended by more than 100 participants and it inspired a range of thought provoking questions from the audience. The recording of the lecture is on the event page on our website.
The second event was the CHERN China-Europe research highlights – Global Views of China, a presentation of the Sinophone Borderlands project’s public opinion surveys conducted in 13 European countries. The presentation was followed by an extensive Q&A session with the audience, covering a number of topics related to China-Europe relations. The recording of the presentation is on the event page on our website.
The first cycle of our Online Series concluded with a CHERN research and communication skills workshop - Effectively Communicating Your China Research. Through the workshop, participants learned how to enhance their science communication skills and strategies and become more effective, efficient, and engaging.
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Our Online Series continues:
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Prof. Zha Daojiong: Nontraditional security in China-Europe relations
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The concept of nontraditional security gained popularity in Chinese deliberations about world affairs and the country’s external environment in the mid-1990s. It has since penetrated Chinese thinking and gained prominence in official declarations on the country’s challenges both domestic and international. In both China and Europe there is widespread recognition of the need to incorporate nontraditional aspects of security into the wider framework of security. For both China and Europe cooperation on nontraditional security is a practical necessity. Much progress has been achieved, with a lot of space for further exploration as well. This talk begins by giving a brief contour of nontraditional security in China’s handling of international relations, particularly with its Asian neighbors. It then reviews some of the structural issues in global public health (as seen from a Chinese perspective) and contemplates promises and pitfalls in treating health as a nontraditional security in cross-national and cross-continental contexts. March 18 2021, 10am CET / 9am GMT / 4am US EST / 5pm CST
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Foreign Investments and Security: A Nordic perspective on China’s rise
The second Research Highlights event in our Online Series is a presentation by Ulf Sverdrup and Morten S. Andersen from the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), who will give a Nordic perspective on China’s rise.
April 8 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
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How to do surveys studying public opinion attitudes towards China
The second Workshop in our Online Series builds on the Sinophone Borderlands project, which runs public opinion surveys of attitudes towards China. Richard Q. Turcsányi (Palacky University Olomouc) will present an overall outlook of how the survey has been organized in order to give participants enough information to potentially replicate it in other countries or start other types of research collaborations.
April 29 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
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Call for Short term scientific mission summer hosts
Are you interested in hosting a promising young scholar or a far away colleague to collaborate on research related to Chinese socio-economic engagements in Europe? CHERN Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) aim to increase academic exchange and yield new opportunities for research on Chinese involvement in Europe in the fields of strategic investments, finance, technology, innovation, public diplomacy and human mobility. With CHERN's financial support for the researchers’ mobility, you can expand your research by obtaining new data, work jointly on funding opportunities or co-publish scientific and policy-related outputs.
Deadline for applications: March 31st
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Call for Abstracts - "China’s Digital Power and its Implications for the Europe" Workshop
CHERN’s Working Group 2 (High technology and innovation) is organizing a workshop on China’s Digital Power and its Implications for Europe to facilitate research that supports European policymaking. The workshop will take place in June 2021. Depending on the pandemic situation, the workshop might be held hybrid, online or as a physical meeting in Sweden, Belgium, or the Netherlands.
Deadline for applications: March 28th
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Working Group Activities
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Webinars on China’s digital power and its implications
Working Group 2 (High-technology and innovation) continues to hold its monthly webinar series. The activities focus on China’s digital power and its implications for the EU, foreign direct investment and green innovation as well as methodological issues around new technologies such as AI. In February, Nana de Graaff and Diliara Valeeva presented their forthcoming paper “Chinese Investments in Europe – Emerging Networks of Sino-European Corporate Elite Interlocks”. In March, Lena Kaufmann presented her ongoing work on China’s digital Silkroad to Switzerland from an on-the-ground perspective.
In the upcoming webinars, on Thursday 8 April 2021, Sanne van der Lugt (Leiden Asia Centre) will talk about Chinese smart devices in the office. On Thursday 20 May 2021 there is a webinar about China’s dominance of critical raw materials for high technology by John Seaman (IFRI, Paris). In June, Maaike Okano-Heijmans (Clingendael, The Hague) will present her research about secure and open digital connectivity.
If you are interested in joining the webinar series, please send an email to tim.ruhlig@ui.se!
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Uneven and combined (state) capitalism
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Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon presented on "Uneven and Combined (State) Capitalism" in an event jointly organized by CHERN's Working Group 3 (Financial investments, real estate and services) and the Global Development Institute at Manchester. It was a well-attended, fascinating and wide-ranging presentation that brought together varied perspectives on the topic of state capitalism in a manner that points the way forward for this important research agenda. An interview with the speakers will be publicly available and put out on the Manchester Global Development Institute's podcast feed in the near future.
Working Group 3 is planning another webinar in April about financial infrastructures, and another event on banking in May.
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Chinese Soft Power in Context
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Working Group 4 (Public Diplomacy and Knowledge Production) held its first and very successful two-day online Workshop on "Chinese Soft Power in Context", 11-12 March 2021. The workshop opened with a thought provoking keynote by Prof. Frank Pieke (Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University) on his ongoing research and it concluded by an insightful lecture by Prof. Yongjin Zhang (School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol) who offered a historical and constructivist perspective on the ‘long durée’ of Chinese soft power. With more than 30 participants, the two days were filled with presentations of ongoing research on European policy and popular perceptions of Chinese soft power, comparisons of Chinese and European values, and examples of Chinese soft power in for example business elite networks, as well as ample discussion and exchange. A CHERN special issue proposal on the theme is in the making and a call will follow. A recording of the concluding remarks by Prof. Zhang can be viewed on the event page on our website.
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Recent publications by CHERN members
- Balmas, P., Dörry, S. (2021). Chinese state-owned bank expansion into Europe: Bank branches and subsidiaries. Financial Geography Working Paper Series, Working Paper #29.
- Bartoletto, S. (2020). Energy transitions in mediterranean countries : consumption, emissions and security of supplies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Brennan, Louis (2021). “Why Beijing secured a clear win in EU trade deal”, Financial Times, January 6
- Fornes, G., Cardoza, G., & Altamira, M. (2021). Do political and business relations help emerging markets’ SMEs in their national and international expansion?evidence from Brazil and China. International Journal of Emerging Markets, Ahead-of-print.
- Gosens, J., Binz, C., & Lema, R. (2020). China’s role in the next phase of the energy transition: contributions to global niche formation in the concentrated solar power sector. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 34, 61–75.
- Haakonsson, S., Kirkegaard, J. K., & Lema, R. (2020). The decomposition of innovation in Europe and China’s catch-up in wind power technology: the role of KIBS. European Planning Studies, 28(11), 2174–2192.
- Heggelund, G. M. (2021). China’s climate and energy policy: at a turning point? International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 21(1), 9–23.
- Hooijmaaijers, B. (2021). China, the BRICS, and the limitations of reshaping
global economic governance, The Pacific Review, 34:1, 29–55. - Hooijmaaijers, B. (2021). Unpacking EU policy-making towards China : how member states, bureaucracies, and institutions shape its China economic policy(Ser. Palgrave studies in asia-pacific political economy). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ilie, C., Fornes, G., Cardoza, G., & Mondragón Quintana Juan Carlos. (2020). Development of business schools in emerging markets: learning through adoption and adaptation.Sustainability, 12(20), 8448–8448.
- Kirkulak-Uludag, B., & Safarzadeh, O. (2021). Exploring shock and volatility transmission between oil and Chinese industrial raw materials. Resources Policy, 70.
- Landini, F., Lema, R., & Malerba, F. (2021). Demand-led catch-up: a history-friendly model of latecomer development in the global green economy.Industrial and Corporate Change, 29(5), 1297–1318.
- Lema, R., Gregersen, C., Bhamidipati, P. L., Hansen, U. E., & Kirchherr, J. (2021). China’s investments in renewable energy in Africa: creating co-benefits or just cashing-in? World Development, 141.
- Lema, Rasmus, Xiaolan Fu, and Roberta Rabellotti. 2021. Green Windows of Opportunity: Latecomer Development in the Age of Transformation Toward Sustainability. Industrial and Corporate Change 29(5):1193–1209.
- Mattlin, M. (2020). Kanariefågeln som tystnade. Finlands gestalt shift om kinesiska investeringar. Internasjonal Politikk, 78(1), 54-67.
- Martínez-Galán, E. (2021). Financing the protection of biodiversity: international governance as a mitigating factor of risks along the Belt and Road Initiative, chapter 8, pp. 265-297 and 313-314. In: Griffiths, R.T. and Hughes, A.C. (Eds.) The way of the road: the ecological implications of infrastructure. International Institute for Asian Studies.
- McCaleb, A. (2020). Two decades of Chinese FDI in Poland. In: P.K. Biswas, R. Dygas (Eds.), Foreign Direct Investment Outflow from Asian Countries to EU Member States. SGH Publishing House, pp. 69-82.
- Paltemaa, L., Vuori, J. A., Mattlin, M., & Katajisto, J. (2020). Meta-information censorship and the creation of the chinanet bubble. Information, Communication & Society, 23(14), 2064–2080.
- Skjærseth, J. B., Andresen, S., Bang, G., & Heggelund, G. M. (2021). The Paris agreement and key actors’ domestic climate policy mixes: comparative patterns. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 21(1), 59–73.
- Svetlicinii, Alexandr (2021). China to Discipline Online Platforms with Antitrust Enforcement?, Kluwer Competition Law Blog, February 17
- Svetlicinii, A. (2020). Chinese State Owned Enterprises and EU Merger Control(1st ed.). Routledge.
- Svetlicinii, A. (2021). Economic nationalism during COVID-19: is the EU merger control ready? European Competition Law Review, 42(2): 69-74.
- Svetlicinii, Alexandr: “Three Great Mountains” for the Chinese State-Owned Investments in the European Union, Official Blog of the European Competition and Regulatory Law Review, February18
- Yin, W., Z. Zhu, B. Kirkulak-Uludag, Y. Zhu (2021). The determinants of green credit and its impact on the performance of Chinese banks, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 286, 2021.
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