CHERN Paris 2022 – China in Europe in Times of Global Disruption

The China in Europe Research Network (CHERN) COST Action met in Paris in September 2022 to explore the latest research on China-Europe relations. With growing geopolitical rivalry and global efforts to reduce interdependence with China, especially in the technology domain, there is increasing demand for empirical studies to inform policymakers.

Looking back and looking ahead during the MC meeting

Once a year, CHERN organizes the Management Committee (MC) meeting as required by COST. During this meeting, we learned that the network has again grown in tremendous numbers and reach. The Core Group gave an overview of all the activities of Grant Period 3, and we also looked ahead to Grant Period 4. There are many interesting activities to come and we are currently planning and preparing all these - paper workshops, a Training School, new events in our Online Series and Short Term Scientific Missions as the main focus, and you can also expect a call for Virtual Mobility grants and ITC conference grants.

Keep an eye on your mailbox as we will update you on all this and more in the next newsletter!     

Rapid Short Term Scientific Missions

In Grant Period 4, we continue to offer opportunities for Rapid STSMs. Rapid STSMs are short duration research visits to establish or deepen research collaboration between the STSM applicant and the host. The applicant and host apply jointly and the missions typically take place during several research-intensive days at the host institution (max. duration 5 days). Read the full call for more details and instructions how to apply!

ITC Conference Grants

The ITC Conference Grants aim to financially support the career development of young researchers through networking, training, and integration into ongoing research collaborations. If you will hold an oral or poster presentation at a conference related to the CHERN Action and are interested in this Grant, check out the details and how to apply!

Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond – Call for Papers

CHERN Working Group 5 (Labour and Migration) members Sofia Gaspar (CIES-Iscte, Portugal) and Fanni Beck (CEU, Hungary) are organizing an online seminar on “Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond” on 3 February 2023. CHERN members and beyond are invited to submit an abstract and attend the meeting!

Calls to expect in our next Newsletter

The call for Short Term Scientific Missions hosts

The call for Virtual Mobility grants

Keep an eye on your mailbox!

Recent Working Group Activities

Workshop: Narrating Europe and China in Times of Crisis

Several members of CHERN Working Group 4 (Public diplomacy and knowledge production) met in Amsterdam and online to discuss their papers in progress on “Narrating Europe and China in Times of Crisis”. The group will continue working on their papers, and have a final online workshop in 2023. The work will result in an edited volume on narratives.  

Workshop: Europe’s strategic technology autonomy from China

Members of Working Group 2 (High-technology and innovation) met to discuss their work in progress on foundational and emerging technologies in relation to China, such as Blockchain, chip design, digital currency, AI/IoT in the automotive sector and 6G. Authors, discussants and German government officials attended this hybrid workshop in October in Berlin. A publication will follow in the coming months. 

Upcoming Working Group Activities

Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond online seminar

Working Group 5 (Labour and Migration) members Sofia Gaspar (CIES-Iscte, Portugal) and Fanni Beck (CEU, Hungary) are organizing an online seminar on “Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond” on 3 February 2023. There is an open call for papers, which will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of a leading English language peer-reviewed journal.

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.

If you are interested in presenting your paper or joining the webinar series, please send an email to WG2 coordinator tim.ruhlig@ui.se!

‌Recent publications by CHERN members

Altamira, M., & Fornes, G. (2022). Chinese Multinationals and the Politics of Internationalisation. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2022, No. 1, p. 17975). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. 

Altamira, M., Fornes, G., & Mendez, A. (2022). Chinese institutions and international expansion within the Belt and Road Initiative: firm capabilities of Chinese companies in the European Union. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1-23. 

Balmas, P., & Dörry, S. (2022). The Geoeconomics of Chinese Bank Expansion into the European Union. In The Political Economy of Geoeconomics: Europe in a Changing World (pp. 161-185). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 

Becker, C., Ten Oever, N., & Nanni, R. (2022). The Standardisation of Lawful Interception Technologies in the 3GPP: Interrogating 5G and Surveillance Amid Us-China Competition. Interrogating 5g and Surveillance Amid Us-China Competition (July 19, 2022).

Boni, F. (2022). Strategic partnerships and China’s diplomacy in Europe: Insights from Italy. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 13691481221127571.

Braun Střelcová, A., Christmann-Budian, S., & Ahlers, A. L. (2022). The End of “Learning from the West”? Trends in China’s Contemporary Science Policy.

Ceccagno, A., & Thunø, M. (2022). Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy. Global Networks.

Chen, J. Y. W. (2022). Reconciling different approaches to conceptualizing the glocalization of the Belt and Road Initiative projects. Globalizations, 1-13.

Chen, X., & Gao, X. (2022). Comparing the EU's and China's approaches in data governance. In Understanding the EU as a Good Global Actor (pp. 209-225). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Conlé, M., ten Brink, T. & Zhao, W. (2022). Innovation platforms as a tool for anchoring non-local knowledge: smart specialisation strategies in Guangdong, China. Industry and Innovation.

Conlé, M., Kroll, H., Storz, C., & ten Brink, T. (2021). University satellite institutes as exogenous facilitators of technology transfer ecosystem development,   . The Journal of Technology Transfer, 1-34.  

Creemers, R. (2022). China’s emerging data protection framework. Journal of Cybersecurity, 8(1), tyac011.

De Beule, F., De Lombaerde, P., & Zhang, H. (2022). The Chinese Belt and Road Initiative: strategic responses of governments and multinational companies. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1-11..

Gao, X., & Chen, X. (2022). Role enactment and the contestation of global cybersecurity governance. Defence Studies, 22(4), 689-708

Gomes, A., ten Brink T., Pauls, R. (in press). Industrial policy and the creation of the electric vehicles market in China: Demand structure, sectoral complementarities and policy coordination. Cambridge Journal of Economics.

De Beule, F., & Zhang, H. (2022). The impact of government policy on Chinese investment locations: An analysis of the Belt and Road policy announcement, host-country agreement, and sentiment. Journal of International Business Policy, 1-24.

Hai, J., & Klingler-Vidra, R. (2022). Chinese blockchain: convergence around a Beijing-aligned strategy. In Global Policy.

Heinrichs, G. & Kleuting, L.  (2022). Annotated collection of guidance for secure and successful international R&I cooperation. DLR-PT.

Kalotay, K., & Szunomár, Á. Chinese investment in the Baltic Sea region: Main characteristics and policy challenges.

Jovičić, E. (2022). Dualna cirkulacija i sistemske promene spoljne i unutrašnje trgovine NR Kine. In Zakić, K., & Stekić, N. (eds.)  Kineski razvojni izazovi: promene i projekcije, Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, Serbia, pp. 173-200.

Langendonk, S. (2022). Multilateralism in China’s foreign relations: A normative-rhetorical tool for suasion and system reform.

Langendonk, S. (2022). Belgium: Exploring the non-debate about dependence on China with Magritte. Dependence in Europe's Relations with China: Weighing Perceptions and Reality, 48-55.

Langendonk, S., & Drieskens, E. (in press). The EU’s embrace of geopolitics: insights from the EU-China relationship. In S. Van Hecke, & O. Costa (Eds.), The EU Political System after the 2019 European Elections. Springer Switzerland.

Liang, S., Lupina-Wegener, A., Ullrich, J., & van Dick, R. (2022). ‘Change is Our Continuity’: Chinese Managers’ Construction of Post-Merger Identification After an Acquisition in Europe. Journal of Change Management, 22(1), 59-78.

Lupina-Wegener, A., Van Dick, R., & Liang, S. (in press). Identification changes in Chinese acquisitions in Europe: the social identity approach. In S. Oreg, R. Michel & R.T. By (Eds.). “The Psychology of Organizational Change” 2nd edition, Palgrave.

Lupina-Wegener, A., F. McDonald, G. Zhang, J. Shan and G. Karamustafa. (in press). Liability of emergingness of emerging market banks internationalizing to advanced economies. In L. Duarte & Galan . In Globalization with Chinese Characteristics: globalization, Belt and Road Initiative and Global, Palgrave Macmillan.

Nanni, R. (2022). Digital sovereignty and Internet standards: normative implications of public-private relations among Chinese stakeholders in the Internet Engineering Task Force. Information, Communication & Society, 1-21.

Nanni, R. (2022). Narrazione e Potere Discorsivo Cinesi nell’Era Covid. OrizzonteCina.

Nyiri, P., de Graaff, N., McCaleb, A., Szunomár, Á., Verver, M., & Ybema, S. (2022). ‘Truly a European company’: a Chinese auto maker’s strategies of Europeanisation. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1-22.  

Petry, J. (2022) ‘Beyond ports, roads and railways: Chinese economic statecraft, the Belt and Road Initiative and the politics of financial infrastructures‘, European Journal of International Relations (open access).

Rühlig, T. N., & ten Brink, T. (2021). The Externalization of China's Technical Standardization Approach. Development and Change, 52(5), 1196-1221.

Vecchi, A., & Brennan, L. (2022). Two tales of internationalization–Chinese internet firms' expansion into the European market. Journal of Business Research, 152, 106-127.

Steenhagen, P., P. Carvalho, E. de Menezes, & D. Veras (September 7th, 2022). Especial "Bicentenário da Independência do Brasil e Relações Sino-Brasileiras". Observa China.

Stojanović, D., Jovičić, E., & Stanisavljević, N. (2022). The Role and Significance of Chinese Investments in the Modernization of Railway Infrastructure in Serbia. In Opportunities and Challenges for Multinational Enterprises and Foreign Direct Investment in the Belt and Road Initiative (pp. 194-216). IGI Global.

Tekdal, V. (2022). Taking the power shift seriously: China and the transformation of power relations in development cooperation. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 1-21.

ten Brink, T. (2022, August). Chinas Aufstieg, Konflikte um Technologieführerschaft und „weaponized interdependence “. In De-Globalisierung (pp. 161-180). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.

Zhang, H., & De Beule, F. (2022). The impact of contextual distance on the investment locations of Chinese multinationals in countries along the Belt and Road initiative. Asia Pacific Business Review, 1-31..

‌Activities by CHERN members