Grzegorz (Greg) Stec

Exclusive | EU leaders plan trip to Beijing in July for summit with Xi No date confirmed with the Chinese side as travel plan indicates serious effort to re-engage amid collapsed relationship with the US.

Late night SCOOP!

EU leaders planning trip to Beijing in July for summit with Xi Jinping

VDL + Costa plan comes after they failed to convince Xi to come to Brussels

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The tensions between the United States and Europe will have an effect on the EU’s relationship with China. How does Beijing see the EU in the first months of the second Trump administration? Listen to our new podcast with MERICS Senior Analyst @grzegorzstec.bsky.social: merics.org/en/podcast/h...

Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX

“Wealthy Chinese investors are quietly funnelling tens of millions of dollars into private companies controlled by Elon Musk using an arrangement that shields their identities from public view” www.ft.com/content/6685...

On #China’s management of #Russia’s war on #Ukraine through narrative🛡️shield and ⚔️sword approach aligned with 🇷🇺 interests.

We analysed 68 🇨🇳 statements on “Ukraine crisis” since🇨🇳🇧🇷 6-point consensus (May-Dec 2024).

Thanks to @euvsdisinfo.eu for the invitation.

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Thanks for the unnecessary ad personam comment.

Care to explain how you arrived to this very definitive conclusion about my supposed motivation?

Questions and Answers on the US reciprocal tariff policy What is the current value of EU-US trade and investment? Total bilateral trade in goods reached €851 billion in 2023. The EU exported €503 billion of goods to the US market, while importing €347 bill

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Things you always wanted to know about the EU-US trade & investment relationship, about “reciprocal” tariffs, whether VAT is a tariff (spoiler alert: no) - have a look👇

Alice Weidel: Geheime Treffen mit China-Botschafter Chinesische Medien nennen Alice Weidel anerkennend „Eiserne Lady“ oder „Zweite Merkel“. Die Kanzlerkandidatin der AfD pflegt enge Beziehungen zu China.

Alice Weidel, leader of the German far right party AfD, met with the former Chinese ambassador Wu Ken "once a month", Bild reports

"The dates were not listed in her calendar and were supposed to remain a secret."

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Flagging this again ahead of tomorrow's European Council.

Kallas and Costa were asked by Zelensky during their trip to Kyiv early December not to push China too hard on making drones for Russia.

Zelensky has been reluctant to comment on it himself. A fascinating dynamic.

💥Confirmed: Chinese entities sanctioned by the for the first time EU over their role in Russia's war in Ukraine. Visa bans and asset freezes on:

- 1 individual and 2 entities for circumvention
- 4 entities supplying sensitive drone components and chips to Russian military

Lithuania’s govt programme: new China direction, social economy policy – key points Lithuania’s incoming Social Democrat-led government has revealed its draft programme, outlining the key priorities over ...

No reset in Lithuania-China ties

New gov's draft programme "pledges to develop economic and cultural ties with Taiwan due to China becoming a 'growing challenge' for foreign-security policy. On Beijing, Vilnius will seek EU, transatlantic unity in relations with China."

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Trump 2.0 and China's EU policy + MERCOSUR + Trade tensions Analysis Trump 2.0: How will China adjust its Europe policy? By Francois Chimits and Grzegorz StecThe overarching goal of China’s Europe policy has long been to drive a wedge between the EU and US to ...

The election of Donald Trump puts Beijing’s Europe policy to the test. In the new MERICS China Europe 360°, François Chimits and @grzegorzstec.bsky.social explore how Beijing might adjust its policy vis-à-vis Europe under different scenarios: merics.org/en/merics-br...

If you have 12-15 minutes to spare, support some IR research on China - and do @merics.bsky.social and the future readers of the report a favour:

Call to action: Participation is open for our annual MERICS China Forecast 2025 survey! Your opinion is very important to us. Please take 12-15 minutes of your time by December 18, 2025 to answer the survey questions. You can find the survey here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/2JMYCXW.

I'm here this morning. Featuring the respective ambassadors of the EU and China.

Last year, sparks flew when EU officials clashed with Chinese state speakers. Stay tuned...

On top of that, Kubilius was a member of EP subcommittee on human rights when it got hit by China’s sanctions in 2021.

The new European Commission and China + EU trade with China and the US + EV tariffs Analysis The new European Commission: Geared toward China challenges The new European Commission of President Ursula von der Leyen’s second term is taking shape, with the 26 proposed commissioners awa...

Are Chinese EV investments in Europe an essential boost or a brewing risk? For the latest MERICS Forum, @grzegorzstec.bsky.social asked Joerg Wuttke, Agnes Szunomar, Jakub Jakóbowski, Gregor Sebastian, Wendy Chang and Alexander Brown for their take: merics.org/en/comment/m...

I'm happy to officially share that I advanced to a new position of Head of #Brussels Office at #MERICS @merics.bsky.social

It's been a great journey with wonderful colleagues, fascinating research & loads of #EU-#China. More to come.

I look forward to this new chapter🥂
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ICYMI: last #MERICS Europe-China 360° @merics.bsky.social

⭐️Li Hui’s tour 2.0: Shuttle diplomacy for pro- #Russia peace
📍Prospects for Beijing mediation as seen from Kyiv by Yurii Poita
📍#EU ramps up action vs. #China market distortions by François Chimits
📍Short takes

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@merics.bsky.social European China Talent Program 2024

👉 Applications run until March 18

Join fellow China researchers and professionals at our #Europe-#China 4 day workshop in Berlin. Meet leading experts and think outside the box on EU’s China policy.

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Radosław Sikorski is back at the helm of Polish MFA!

What does this mean for 🇵🇱 #China policy? Likely a more 🇪🇺 grounded approach.

In 2021 (pre-🇷🇺 invasion) I had a pleasure to discuss w/him his take on 🇨🇳 & @eppgroup.bsky.social China strategy he wrote.

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EU warns China it will 'not tolerate' unfair competition at summit European leaders will "not be able to tolerate that our industrial base is undermined by unfair competition," Ursula von der Leyen warned on Thursday after a highly anticipated meeting with Chinese Pr...

A pleasure to talk 🇪🇺#EU-🇨🇳#China summit with @euronews

📍“EU has put on the table that it wants China to engage constructively, and if not, it's going to take action”

📍“Brussels has an increasing portfolio of tools under economic security and de-risking”

For China's netizens, official #summits are hardly an issue. How can the hashtag "China and the EU have the responsibility to work together to bring more stability to the world" top the list of most searched topics on the microblogging platform Weibo? (1/5)

EU, China Hold Summit in Beijing Amid Deepening Rift With the EU and China both looking to defend their core interests, analysts say summit unlikely to produce any concrete outcomes

The EU-China summit approaches with slim expectations; instead, the gap between the two hasn't been this deep for a long time to remember. My comments in a great company with @grzegorzstec.bsky.social and Dr Zsusza Anna Ferenczy

China’s party-state control over data flows | White paper | Hinrich Foundation China methodical and increased control over data flows could have sweeping implications for global trade, investment, and innovation. Download this paper by MERICS.

CN stringent data localization req. have sweeping implications for global trade, investment & innovation. R. Arcesati & J. Groenewegen-Lau explain how Beijing deploys party-state control over data flows in its digital ecosystem. Part 1 of a new @merics.bsky.social series with Hinrich Foundation.

#EU-#China relations are now a mix of de-risking & re-engagement.

Recently President von der Leyen spoke of “constructive rivalry.”
Beijing signals need to rebuild “strategic trust.”

With EU-China summit in 2 weeks:
What to expect & what does🇨🇳want to achieve?
Strategic trust or stalling?

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Regarding Chinese disinformation in the EU, MERICS Analyst @grzegorzstec.bsky.social sees #China adopting some of Russia’s tactics. Learn more in our latest 🎧podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/1825833/1398...

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#想念 feels tonight

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EU-China summit + EU-US summit Analysis Strategic-trust or -stalling: what does China want from the next EU-China summit? By Grzegorz Stec With the EU-China summit now scheduled for December 7–8, the countdown to set the agenda f...

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👉Examples of technical/tactical goals:

📍International debt restructuring
📍Standards in carbon and methane emission accounting
📍Improve predictability of🇨🇳business environment (anti-espionage and data flow laws)
📍Market access points that do not contradict the de-risking agenda