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The new CEEasia Briefing is out! This issue covers: 1️⃣ Vietnam's 🇻🇳 Prime Minister visits Europe 🇪🇺 2️⃣ South Korea's 🇰🇷 nuclear project in the Czech Republic 🇨🇿 moves forward 👨‍🏭 3️⃣ Japan-Poland ties 🇯🇵 🇵🇱 📬: asian.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=86… 🔗: linkedin.com/pulse/copy-cee…

The evolving relationship between Taiwan and Central & Eastern Europe is the focus of a new discussion between Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy | 馮儒莎 and Matej Šimalčík, Taiwan Fellowship recipient at INDSR Taipei. Here they explore the strategic and geopolitical implications. buff.ly/4hpx9AG

What's next for #CEE-#Taiwan and CEE-#China relations? Together with Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy | 馮儒莎 we talked about possible trajectories of development - read more on 9DASHLINE.

My latest: #China has launched a new round of diplomatic outreach to European countries amid rising tension between the United States and its European allies. Thanks to Mathieu Duchâtel, Matej Šimalčík, Sari Arho Havrén for offering their insights. voanews.com/a/china-aims-t…

Dealing with Trump and US retreat from Europe needs more than panicked calls for deeper EU-China cooperation. My latest for Visegrad Insight

How should democracies respond to #HybridThreats? This key issue was discussed in a panel by European Values Center for Security Policy. Experts shared insights on tackling hybrid threats in 🇹🇼 & CE at this critical point in time. 🗣️ Adriana Černá, Matej Šimalčík, Chyungly Lee 🎤 James Baron

🇪🇺🇰🇷 Our Executive Director, Matej Šimalčík talked about how #EU & #SouthKorea can cooperate in #cybersecurity 🛡️ and countering #disinformation 📱 at yesterday's meeting of European Parliament Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

📢 The new CEEasia Briefing is out! In this issue, we dissect the following topics: 1️⃣ Wang Yi meets Czech Foreign Minister 🇨🇳🇨🇿 2️⃣ Czechia and South Korea hold a supply chain & energy dialogue in Seoul 🇨🇿🇰🇷 3️⃣ Vietnam-Hungary relations 🇻🇳🇭🇺 🔗 linkedin.com/pulse/ceeasia-…

Very excited for CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies to be part of this timely initiative.

What have been the key narratives about China on social media in Central Europe in the times of major changes coming up with the Trump administration? Read our new report. Joanna Nawrotkiewicz Marcin Jerzewski 葉皓勤 Matej Šimalčík Kara Němečková Veronika Blablova Róbert Vancel Sebestyén Hompot 👇

📢 A new CEIAS #report, based on a large-scale public opinion survey conducted in cooperation with NMS Market Research Czech, provides insights into how #V4 citizens view key international actors: #China, 🇨🇳 the #EU, 🇪🇺 #NATO, 🛡️ #Russia, 🇷🇺 and the #US. 🇺🇸 ✍️ By Matej Šimalčík and Filip Šebok

📊 NEW DATA RELEASE: China-Europe Academic Engagement Tracker We've expanded our tracker – a tool offering data-driven analysis on research security & academic cooperation with 🇨🇳 – to include #8 more 🇪🇺 countries! 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷🇸🇮🇨🇾🇱🇺🇦🇲🇦🇿 🔗 Visit our tracker: academytracker.ceias.eu/map/eu

📈🇪🇺 A new study by CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies offers a revealing snapshot of geopolitical attitudes across the V4 (Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary & Poland) — with some striking details, like the fact that 67% of Robert Fico’s (Smer) voters are pro-Russian. VSquare vsquare.org/ceias-survey-s…

🎉 Our 3rd CEEasia Forum has begun! Excited to host this event in cooperation w/ SFPA. 🌏 It is a 2-day conference featuring prominent speakers from around the world, covering key topics on security & stability in the Euro-Atlantic & Indo-Pacific regions. Stay tuned!

We are honored to count UK in Slovakia as one of our major partners. Thanks for supporting the #CEEasiaForum25 in its mission to shape the debates on #Europe - #Asia relations in the #CEE region, and highlighting the importance of the #IndoPacific for our security & prosperity.

Great discussion at European Parliament today🇪🇺 🚘 Martin Sebena, Filip Šebok & Matej Šimalčík presented key findings from CEIAS research on #EV & #battery investments from 🇨🇳, 🇯🇵 & 🇰🇷. 🙏 Thanks to Miriam M. Lexmann & Jan Farský for hosting us, & Žiga Faktor for organizing the event. (1)

🇹🇼👥 Matej Šimalčík & Adam Kalivoda represented CEIAS at the 2025 CAPRI Annual Forum, which focused on navigating the challenges of #innovation & #resilience. 💬 “There are only a few other places where the topic has bigger urgency than in #Taiwan,” said our Executive Director.

This month, Orban's Hungary made clear that it would not choose Trump's America over China Really interesting poll here from CEIAS showing that just 16.9% of Hungarians want the EU to choose China over the US, compared to 53.1% who want to choose the US. ceias.eu/central-europe…

In May, CEIAS: Central European Institute of Asian Studies together w/ Keough School of Global Affairs, & Univerzita Palackého organized a policy workshop in Prague focusing on how smaller countries engage w/ 🇨🇳. 💡The workshops brought together diplomats, policymakers, think tankers, academics & journalists. 🙏 Thanks to all who participated!

Matej Šimalčík recently spoke at the conference Europe & the Indo-Pacific in a Changing Global Landscape hosted by National Chengchi University | 國立政治大學. He presented some preliminary thoughts from his ongoing research on potential 🇪🇺–🇹🇼 cooperation on #EconomicSecurity. 🛡️ Here are some key takeaways 👇