New regulations will allow the Chinese government to preview, deny, and punish foreign investment activities, including in the areas of critical infrastructure and Internet technology, for national security purposes, Bloomberg reports: bloom.bg/37BjDs8

Un’inchiesta ha denunciato la presenza di membri del governo di Xi Jinping in società straniere con sede fuori dalla Cina. Una rete di relazioni e influenze che va di pari passo con l'offensiva lanciata dalla politica cinese. Di Alberto Bellotto linkiesta.it/2020/12/cina-s…

Il punto su ciò che non va dell’imminente accordo Europa-Cina con Giuliano Pisapia. Affrettare un accordo e non «cogliere la mano che ci viene tesa dall’altra sponda dell’Atlantico» potrebbe essere un grosso errore per l’Ue. Lucio Palmisano su Linkiesta Europea linkiesta.it/2020/12/cina-e…

Italian public opinion on #China is riddled with contradictions. The Italians are longing for economic engagement with 🇨🇳 while at the same time being distrusting of it. Find our more about perception of 🇨🇳 in #Italy 🇮🇹 in our new report. Download here: ceias.eu/survey-europea…

“[Disinformation] now spreads faster than ever, reaching citizens in their homes every day. Some state actors, like Russia and China, are actively involved in these activities, trying to undermine and delegitimise our democratic systems and the values of freedom [and] pluralism.”

Gli accordi Cina-Ue e il video-summit che mette in ombra Conte | Rep rep.repubblica.it/pwa/generale/2… Repubblica

Accordo Ue-Cina, Scalfarotto: «Italia ignorata. Inopportuna la presenza di Macron» corriere.it/economia/finan…

🇮🇹&🇨🇳 agreed to support each other’s hosting of 2022&2026 Winter Olympics. “The show of solidarity from Rome will be welcomed by CN in the wake of calls from some European politicians for a boycott of the 2022 Games in protest against Beijing’s hardline policies in Xinjiang & HK”

🚨🚨Hearing growing reports that an online 17+1 summit between #China and #CEE will be happening in February. Will China manage to revive the dying format? Plamen Tonchev Marcin Przychodniak Justyna Szczudlik诗丽娜 Jakub Jakóbowski Grzegorz (Greg) Stec Stefan Vladisavljev Richard Turcsanyi Bartosz Kowalski

Partly state-owned Deutsche Telekom will get mobile provider license in China. In return, Germany opens market to China Mobile. This is what anonymous EU sources claim is Merkel-Xi CAI side deal. Would be side deal from hell, exposing German critical infrastructure even further.

“Europe’s China watchers eye sanctions and supply-chain diversification” - short analysis based on the results of our annual survey forecasting EU-China relations in 2021 merics.org/en/short-analy…

Maurizio Scarpari: All’ombra dell’anaconda. Considerazioni sinologiche. sinosfere.com/2021/01/13/mau…

Polish FM criticizes #CAI in an open interview.Believes there was not enough debate on the issue and the EC's mandate should have been renewed.Criticizes 🇩🇪 presidency and EC for employing "procedural tricks" to push it through,setting a bad precedent. pism.pl/publications/D…

New MERICS EU-China Review edition by Grzegorz (Greg) Stec is out! ** Subscribe: bit.ly/3iyUoea ** Read: bit.ly/3c1cYtZ ** Also featured in the Review: a series of new or updated mappings on EU-China relations - compiled by Lucrezia Poggetti merics.org/en/short-analy…

Today I met Mikko Huotari, director of Germany’s leading think tank on #China MERICS. We need to boost German and European expertise on 🇨🇳, and Merics is one of our prime partners to do that!

Possono le democrazie rimanere fedeli ai loro valori nell'intrattenere relazioni commerciali con la Cina? Mio commento di questo mese su CAI, il lavoro forzato degli uiguri e la necessità di leggi in Europa per la due diligence nelle catene di fornitura rep.repubblica.it/pwa/commento/2…

L'atlantismo, la collocazione nel mondo e le geometrie della nuova Italia. La chiave il dossier cinese. Una rivoluzione possibile, che parte dall'Italia e arriva in Europa. Inchiesta di Giulia Pompili ilfoglio.it/esteri/2021/02…