![Berlin – China’s View of a Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and European Defense Integration: Supportive, Opposed, or Indifferent? With Scott Harold [August 29, 2018]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/scott.jpeg)
Aug 18, 2018
Since 2016, the EU has moved forward with a Global Strategy centered around a Common Annual Review of Defense (CARD), a European Defense Fund (EDF), and a Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) agreement. European Union leaders are working to deepen...
![Berlin – Present and future state of Cross-Strait relations with Prof. Dr. Jhy-Wey Shieh, Representative of Taiwan [Thursday, July 26, 2018]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rsz_shieh.jpg)
Jul 18, 2018
In recent years Cross-Strait relations have worsened and there seems to be no prospect to reopen formal cross-Strait channels of dialogue since they were cut in June 2016. China suspects that Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen aims to push for the island’s formal...
![Berlin – Rising Competitors: India and China with Garima Mohan [Thursday, November 16]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Garima_Mohan.jpg)
Nov 10, 2017
What to expect from relations between China and India in the 21st century? Over the past few decades, China and India have managed to push their disputes into the background in order to cooperate with each other. The two countries have established trade and economic...
![Berlin – Do China Experts Matter? A discussion with David Bandurski, co-director of the China Media Project [Wednesday, September 6, 2017]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/bandurski.jpg)
Sep 1, 2017
Given China’s increasing influence across the globe, understanding its ideas and actions is more important than ever. But how, as researchers, can we grasp contemporary China. And once we do, how do we convey this knowledge to others? In an informal discussion,...
![Berlin – Lunchtalk: The China Story – a Case of Fake History? with Frank Dikötter [Tuesday, May 16]](https://www.youngchinawatchers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fd.jpeg)
May 10, 2017
An old communist joke has it that Marxists can tell the future but find the past more difficult to predict. One-party states constantly rewrite their own history, if only because it legitimises the present. Frank Dikötter will discuss one of the most powerful...
