Are CEE Democracies Effectively Sovereign in the Eyes of China?

Outrage and condemnation from CEE after Chinese Ambassador Lu Shaye claimed former-Soviet states do not exist. Poland’s nationalist government is becoming increasingly erratic on the domestic and international scene as opinion polls show it may find it hard to retain power in the October elections after angering farmers, a key electorate, over Ukrainian grain imports. In the second part of the podcast, Editor-in-chief Wojciech Przybylski and Marcin Krol Fellow Jan Farfal sit down with Samuel Ramani (Royal United Services Institute) to discuss the changes happening in Russia and how Russian policy has changed since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.