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Written by Marcin Grajewski,
The National People’s Congress has recently confirmed Xi Jinping as China’s President, along with several appointments of his allies to top state jobs. It has also approved amendments to China’s Constitution which, in particular, abolish the limit of two five-year terms for the office of the President, prompting concerns that the country is moving towards a more autocratic system. These decisions have cemented Xi’s grip on power in a country that plays an increasingly important role in the global economy as well as in security and foreign affairs. Analysts say that China’s growing assertiveness poses a challenge to the United States, whose policies are becoming increasing unpredictable, and to other international actors.
This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from major international think tanks on China, its ties with the EU and related issues. More studies on the topics can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are thinking’ published in June, 2017.
EU-China relations
The Indo-Pacific: A passage to Europe?
European Union Institute for Security Studies, March 2018
Europe, Japan and a rising China: Policies and prospects
Instituto Affari Internazionali, February 2018
Dancing with the bear: Macron in China
European Council on Foreign Relations, January 2018
Macron gets the timing right in China as energetic standard-bearer for Europe
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2016
China at the gates: A new power audit of EU-China relations
European Council on Foreign Relations, December 2017
Chinese investment in Europe: A country-level approach
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Institut français des relations internationales, Real Instituto Elcano, Mercator Institute for China Studies, December 2017
Digital infrastructure: Overcoming the digital divide in China and the European Union
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2017
An uphill struggle? Towards coordinated EU engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Egmont, November 2017
EU-China relations in the era of Donald Trump
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, November 2017
Trump and China Boost EU–India relationship
German Marshall Fund, October 2017
The good, the bad and the ugly: Chinese influence in the Western Balkans
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, October 2017
EU–China economic relations to 2025: Building a common future
Bruegel, September 2017
China in the Balkans: The battle of principles
European Council on Foreign Relations, July 2017
Transatlantic troubles and the EU’s pivot toward Asia
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, July 2017
China’s Belt & Road Initiative: Nice for China, not for Europe
Clingendael, July 2017
Xi’s growing power
Reading the tea leaves on China’s constitutional amendments
Bruegel, March 2018
China’s new top government leaders
Brookings Institution, March 2018
The Chinese Communist Party
Council on Foreign Relations, March 2018
All that Xi Wants: China’s Communist Party is trying to reform the country from the top down
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, March 2018
China: More authoritarianism, more uncertainty
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2018
In China, the dawn of the Xi dynasty?
Atlantic Council, February 2018
China is likely to enter another long period of severe dictatorship
Council on Foreign Relations, February 2018
Xi’s rule for life: What does our anxiety reveal?
European Council on Foreign Relations, February 2018
China’s “New Era” with Xi Jinping characteristics
European Council on Foreign Relations, December 2017
China: All the president’s men
European Council on Foreign Relations, October 2017
China’s new Politburo and Politburo Standing Committee
Brookings Institution, October 2017
Foreign relations and security
Will Trump make China great again? The belt and road initiative and international order
Chatham House, March 2018
Dynamism hallmark of China-Russia relations
Carnegie Moscow, March 2018
US allies aren’t buying its new strategies to confront China
Chatham House, February 2018
U.S. policy toward China: Dumping the baby, the bathwater, and the tub
Council on Foreign Relations, February 2018
Power and influence in a globalized world
Atlantic Council, February 2018
China has big plans to win the next war it fights
Rand Corporation, February 2018
The competition for status could increase the risk of a military clash in Asia
Rand Corporation, February 2018
China’s endgame: The path towards global leadership
Rand Corporation, February 2018
The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana
Chatham House, January 2018
US–China relations and the liberal world order: Contending elites, colliding visions?
Chatham House, January 2018
Exploring the links between Chinese foreign policy and humanitarian action: Multiple interests, processes and actors
Overseas Development Institute, January 2018
Geostrategic and military drivers and implications of the Belt and Road Initiative
Council on Foreign Relations, January 2018
The Belt and Road Initiative aka: One belt one road scheme
Observer Research Foundation, January 2018
Defence industries in Russia and China: Players and strategies
European Union Institute for Security Studies, December 2017
No longer a new kid on the block: China in the Middle East
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2017
Movement on the Silk Road
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, November 2017
China at the dawn of a new era? The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party
Institute for National Security Studies, November 2017
Les Etats-Unis face à la Chine, de Henry Kissinger à Donald Trump
Institut français des relations internationales, OCP Policy Center, November 2017
Grand designs: Does China have a ‘grand strategy’?
European Council on Foreign Relations, October 2017
Xi transforms the PLA: How the military is being adapted to China’s changing global position
Polish Institute of International Affairs, October 2017
Lächelnder Hegemon?
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, October 2017
The four traps China may fall into
Council on Foreign Relations, October 2017
Chinese futures: Horizon 2025
European Union Institute for Security Studies, July 2017
China, Liu Xiaobo and the new reality of human rights
Chatham house, July 2017
A warning shot for Xi and Trump
Clingendael, July 2017
Trade and economy
China’s “matryoshka” approach for debt-to-equity swaps could be good for banks, but bad for investors
Bruegel, March 2018
What’s at stake in Trump’s looming trade war with China
Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2018
New Chinese agency could undercut other anti-corruption efforts
Brookings Institution, March 2018
Dollar doubts? Bet on the euro before the renminbi
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2018
Trump’s tariffs risk harm to allies, cede leadership to China
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2018
China’s economy is not normal. It doesn’t have to be
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2018
A Chinese puzzle: Why economic “reform” in Xi’s China has more meanings than market liberalization
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 2018
How to avert a trade war with China
Brookings Institution, February 2018
Global competition and the rise of China
Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2018
Why Beijing should dump its debt
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2016
China fails to woo U.S. with financial sector opening
Bruegel, January 2018
China needs better credit data to help consumers
Peterson Institute for International Economics, January 2018
China, the innovation dragon
Peterson Institute for International Economics, January 2018
Meeting the China challenge: Responding to China’s managed economy
Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2018
Chinese banks’ improved asset quality cannot hide other phantoms
Bruegel, December 2017
Writing new rules for the US-China investment relationship
Council on Foreign Relations, December 2017
China will be crucial to creating a global circular economy
Chatham House, December 2017
The scorecard on development, 1960–2016: China and the global economic rebound
Center for Economic and Policy Research, October 2017
Is China deleveraging? Too early to cheer
Bruegel, September 2017
Why China is cracking down on cryptocurrencies and ICOs
Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2017
Globally, more name U.S. than China as world’s leading economic power but balance shifts in eyes of some key U.S. trading partners and allies
Pew Research Center, July 2017
China is the world’s new science and technology powerhouse
Bruegel, August 2017
Read this briefing on ‘China‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
