The meeting between the presidents of China and the US is perhaps the most important one at the international level as they represent the two most powerful countries in the world. The timing of the first summit between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump further outlines the need of finding a modus vivendi […]
Director of CIFE’s Research and Development Professor Hartmut Marhold wrote a commentary in Global Times discussing the importance of Sino-European relations. According to Marhold, ‘the need for cooperation between China and Europe has increased due to the withdrawal of the US’ […]
German leading newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published an article focusing on China’s investments in ports of the Mediterranean […]
Journalist Akihiro Sano from the Nikkei Asian Review recently visited Greece to prepare a comprehensive story about Chinese investments in Greece. By arguing that ‘China is puring money into Greece’s infrastructure sector’ he presents COSCO’s investment in Piraeus […]
The evolution of the Sino-American relationship will be critical to the shaping of the world order in the following years. While China is prepared to show continuity in approaching the U.S. on the whole, the latter is pondering how it should approach the former […]
The Chinese administration does not cultivate any illusions that Trump will accept a Chinese domination over international trade. By contrast, it is preparing itself for all scenarios, even a trade war, as long as the U.S. is in search for new bilateral deals of “fair trade” with its partners […]
Eight years ago, Barack Obama entered the White House, inheriting both an advantage and a disadvantage from his predecessor and the circumstances. In particular, the chaos in the Middle East – namely in Afghanistan and Iraq due to George W. Bush’s wars […]
For almost half a century, the annual Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) has constituted a useful platform for the exchange of views between politicians, economists and scholars on international developments. Since 2008 in particular, it has acquired additional significance due to the financial crisis threatening world stability. Amid uncertainty […]
Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election of November 8 with a rather revolutionary rhetorical agenda, with reconsideration of trade policies seemingly a major priority. While facts […]
It was back in 1999 when a Chinese president – Jiang Zemin – last visited Switzerland. Eighteen years later, Xi Jinping will travel to the country with three goals in mind. The first is to foster bilateral ties between the two states. The second is to participate in the 47th World Economic Forum in Davos […]
