[Fudan/China] Special Lecture #23 (30/04/2019) > Special Lectures

Title

Domestic Dynamics in European Countries and China`s Belt and Road Initiative: Perspective from Italy, Greece and Germany

Speaker

    Dr. Andrea Ghiselli, Ms. Eva Sali, Mr. Slefan Shada

Dates

Apirl 30, 2019

Venue

Room 630, Wenke Building

Number of

Direct Participants

(researchers and students from your institution)

11

Number of

Indirect Participants

(other audiences like media or residents in your region)

0

Outlines

(up to 5 points)

Andrea Ghiselli:

1.     Reasons to sign the BRI MOU for Italy, the choice of ignorant elites, the result of corruption, economic consideration.

2.     Who supports the BRI MOU.

3.     Who opposes it.

Eva Sali:

1. Belt and Road Initiative: project of the century?

2. Greece: a gateway to Europe.

3. Domestic dynamics of welcoming Chinese investment and BRI

4. Torn between the West and China

5. Growing concerns in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Washington.

6. 17+1 and geopolitical aspirations.

Slefan Shada

1. Sino-German relationship review, strategic partnership, strong economic ties.

2. Attitude to Chinese Culture, sympathy and distance.

3. Germany and BRI from 2011 to 2019, from positive to concerns and criticisms.

4. German strategy to BRI, not rejecting BRI but with caution, coordinating Europe`s response to and its involvement with initiative through the EU, OSCE and G20.