Asia Policy Briefs

December 11, 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Economic relations between the EU and China have intensified as a result of China’s integration in the multilateral trading system – by and large to mutual benefit.

What are the prospects for the strategic partnership between Germany and India when it comes to health? The coronavirus pandemic is currently for both partners at the center of their health policy agendas. Regarding the containment of the pandemic and the strengthening of...

What are the prospects for the strategic partnership between Germany and India? In the second chapter of our policy brief series Parvati Vasanta takes a closer look at the respective interests and perspectives of both partners in trade relations.

What are the prospects of the strategic partnership between Germany and India? Often, we see that mutual statements about its infinite potential characterize the Indo-German relationship. At the same time, the discussion very often remains merely a theoretical exchange....

European thought traditionally imagines Central Asia as a remote and disconnected “hinterland”. It is no less of a cliché, but it would be more useful to think of the region as a Eurasian core, as the geographical centrality of the region and competition between great powers...

Worldwide, democracy is under pressure. The slow but steady erosion of democracy in many places in the last decade seems to accelerate since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic. The Asia-Pacific region is not immune against the impositions of authoritarian populism and other...

Geopolitics has returned to vogue, and the EU does not enjoy a monopoly on influence in the Western Balkans. China is the latest player on the scene, and although its economic footprint is still relatively small, Beijing’s growing presence is a new reality that Brussels...

Blockchain is one key technology that will dominate the economy in the near

future. China, Japan and South Korea protect their blockchain innovations with

patents...

The looming superpower rivalry between the US and China has massive implications for Germany and its European partners. While Donald Trump is forcing Europeans to think outside the transatlantic box, it is Xi Jinping who is posing more fundamental challenges. Time to balance...

Economic development and prosperity strengthen social cohesion in Asia, poverty and discrimination against women weaken it. This is the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, which for the first time examined the cohesion of 22 societies in South,...