EU-China Relations: 2022 Recap and predictions for the Year of the Rabbit

Welcome to our very first episode of the European Guanxi Podcast! Each month we discuss current news events, review books and articles, or conduct interviews with China experts to help you, our listeners, better understand China and Sino-European relations.In today’s episode, Ardita Osmani and Karolin Hofmann summarise some of the key events that shaped EU-China relations in the last year - from the controversies surrounding the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to China’s “pro-Russian” neutrality in the Ukraine War to the Taiwan visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.For the second part of the episode, we invited Alicia García Herrero to share her thoughts on how the Ukraine War has impacted Sino-European relations. Miss García Herrero is a Senior Fellow at European think-tank BRUEGEL, the Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) of the National University Singapore (NUS).Lastly, European Guanxi member Prisca Mirchandani interviews two young China researchers who published articles on end-of-the-year festivities in China and the impact of COVID-19 on Chinese people’s consumer behaviour, respectively.We hope you enjoy listening and would love for you to tune in to our next episode!Do not forget to check out European Guanxi on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn and subscribe to stay up to date with our webinars and blog posts.Also, feel free to ask us any questions that you may have regarding China or EU-China relations. We will gladly try to answer them.Please find below links to relevant articles and further reading.Links to the articles Prisca discussed:Valeria Medeghini: https://www.europeanguanxi.com/post/end-of-the-year-festivals-in-chinaVania Tabanelli: https://www.europeanguanxi.com/post/how-covid-19-has-impacted-chinese-consumers-habitsLinks we have retrieved information from:https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eu-phase-out-covid-tests-travellers-china-2023-02-16/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/us/politics/china-spy-balloon-program.htmlMERICS China Forecast 2023: https://merics.org/en/short-analysis/chinas-precarious-path-forward-insights-merics-china-forecast-2023