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Ivana Karaskova
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Founder and leader of @chinaobservers.eu (CHOICE) and Women Insight on China (WiCH) at AMO. Researcher at @fsv.unikarlova.cuni.cz. Ex Spec. Advisor to EC VP. Personal views, like=interest.
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Who are the experts who explain China to us? We’ve spent the last five years asking China experts to nominate other China experts until we had gathered more than 2000 individuals across the world and in a variety of professions: doi.org/10.1017/S104...
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🌍 Ever wondered how China is reshaping its story on the global stage? 🤔
In our latest podcast episode, @emma-belmonte.bsky.social dives deep into the new narratives being crafted by China with David O'Brian &
@nawrotkiewiczj.bsky.social 👉 chinaobservers.eu/beyond-propa...
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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The Xi–Trump meeting in Busan wasn’t historic—it was tired. In today's article, Konrad Szatters writes that two powers are locked in rivalry, yet unable to separate without hurting themselves. 🔗 chinaobservers.eu/enemies-who-...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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🔗If you want to know all about our findings, take a look at our newest article by @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social & @emma-belmonte.bsky.social 👉https://chinaobservers.eu/where-have-all-the-china-girls-gone/
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🚨Women in China Research🚨
Our CHOICE team has long been experiencing a worrying pattern at #China conferences: #manels.👨To understand the scope of the issue, we took matters into our own hands.💪
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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🎤In case you haven't watched @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social's testimony at the European Parliament yet, we bring you the full transcript 👉 chinaobservers.eu/why-europe-i...
Highlights:
Why Europe Is an Easy Target for China’s Political Influence – chinaobservers
This is a transcript of Ivana Karásková's oral testimony for the European Parliament's AFET & EUDS public hearing on China’s influence in the European Union
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November 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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👩‍🔬Xi Jinping celebrates women as “protagonists” of China’s modernization – yet his policies push them into domestic roles, urging a “new culture of marriage and parenting.” Full analysis on gender equality in China's STEM by Elze Pinelyte from @gssc-lt.bsky.social👉 chinaobservers.eu/chinas-float...
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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🚨🎤Today at 4pm (UTC+01:00) our lead @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social will testify on China’s influence in the European Union at the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs Special & Committee on the European Democracy Shield public hearing. Watch👇 multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Tune in for the EP hearing on Wednesday!
October 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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🗳️Today’s Dutch elections could quietly reshape Europe’s approach to China. How? Read our new article by @sensehofstede.nl 👉 chinaobservers.eu/will-the-dut...
Key takeaways:🧵👇
#Netherlands #China #Elections #EU #Geopolitics #ForeignPolicy #ASML #Nexperia #Trade #TechSecurity #Europe
Will the Dutch Return to the European Front on China After the Elections? – chinaobservers
Today, on October 29, the Netherlands votes in Lower House elections that will determine the composition of its future government. In June this year, the populi
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October 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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📢A new episode of our 🎧podcast China Observers is out!
What Europeans got wrong about the #China - #Russia friendship? That is one of the questions Emma Belmonte asked @ivanakaraskova.bsky.social & @abachulska.bsky.social.
👂Learn how to get China right: chinaobservers.eu/what-europea...
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Through this full-time (Prague based, possibly remote or hybrid) position, you would help us with our projects – including but not limited to China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), MapInfluenCE and Women Insight on China.
We Are Looking for a Deputy China Team Lead/Senior China Analyst! – chinaobservers
AMO is a leading non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to research and education in international politics, active since 1997. Our activities enco
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October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🔍 What was last week's EU-China Parliamentary Meeting about? Read the insights by CHOICE network analysts from all over the EU in our new article 👉 chinaobservers.eu/the-eu-china...
The EU-China Inter-Parliamentary Meeting: Perspectives from CHOICE – chinaobservers
The 42 nd meeting between the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the People’s Republic of China and representatives of the National People’s Co
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October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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📣 Don't just follow us, join us! 🤝
Attention Junior China Analysts, we’re #hiring! Join our dynamic team as we expand our #China Projects Team at @amo.cz. Apply until November 1, 2025: www.amo.cz/en/the-assoc...
We look forward to our new colleague to be a part of our journey!
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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📣The more the merrier!📣 We are hashtag#hiring a Deputy China Team Lead/ Senior China Analyst to join our dynamic team as we expand our China Projects Team at AMO - Association for International Affairs. Apply until November 9: chinaobservers.eu/we-are-looki...
October 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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🤰Why are flights from Georgia to China full of crying babies? Our analyst @emma-belmonte.bsky.social wrote a very interesting investigative piece on the phenomenon of the "Surrogacy Silk Road" for @chinafile.bsky.social, read it here 👇 www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...
A Surrogacy Silk Road: Chinese Parents Head West for Babies
Georgia has become an increasingly popular destination for Chinese visitors. The number of visits nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, with more than 88,500 visits last year. Yet leisure tourism does...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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1/ 🚨 China's new #RareEarth export controls are hitting Europe’s rearmament plans hard - but they open a strategic window. 👉Read our new article by Niklas Hintermayer & Antonia Hmaidi originally published as a part of @merics.bsky.social rare-earth series 👉 chinaobservers.eu/chinas-rare-... #China
China’s Rare-Earths Export Controls Hit EU Rearmament – but Open a Strategic Window – chinaobservers
This article was originally published by MERICS as part of its series on China’s rare-earths export controls and is republished here with the permission of the
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October 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Vita Golod unpacks the evolution of Ukraine-China relations — from early cooperation to today’s uneasy coexistence shaped by war, sanctions, and global competition over critical minerals.
Read the article👇 chinaobservers.eu/sino-ukraini...
Sino-Ukrainian Relations: Strategic Trade and Geopolitical Balancing – chinaobservers
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has redrawn the geopolitical map, intensifying the bifurcation of the global system between Washington and Beijing. For
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October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Vita Golod unpacks the evolution of Ukraine-China relations — from early cooperation to today’s uneasy coexistence shaped by war, sanctions, and global competition over critical minerals.

Read the article👇 chinaobservers.eu/sino-ukraini...
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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💪Tanks painted with doves. A $5B parade of missiles and AI weapons. And a message about peace.🕊️
@emma-belmonte.bsky.social writes about how China’s 2025 Victory Day Parade reveals military might fused with moral narrative. 🧵
Read the article🔗 chinaobservers.eu/peace-with-c...
October 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🧪🔐 Research security was the topic of the newest CEE-Nordic Dialogue on China, co-organized by CHOICE and our Swedish partner @kinacentrum.bsky.social, @sceeus-ui.bsky.social.
See the key takeaways, tips and resources on research security👇
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CHOICE and UI Hold CEE-Nordic Dialogue on Navigating Research Security – chinaobservers
On September 10, 2025, the second iteration of the  CEE-Nordic Dialogue on China was co-organized by the Swedish National China Centre (NKK)  at the Swedish Ins
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October 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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🚨Xi Jinping has a new system to influence Europe’s political class - the Global Civilization Initiative. @sensehofstede.nl breaks down how the CCP’s “Leninist leash” extends beyond borders in our new article👇
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October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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📢 Our October newsletter is out!
1/This time we look into Wang Yi's visit to Central Europe - Konrad Szatters provides a perspective from Poland, where 19 Russian were spotted days before Wang Yi's arrival.
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CHOICE Newsletter: Wang Yi Visits Central Europe Amid Russian Drone Provocations – chinaobservers
Dear reader, October finalizes a change of guard at CHOICE. We’re bidding farewell to our Senior China Analyst Filip Noubel, who is moving on to develop his own
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October 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Likely outcome? A shift toward a more pragmatic, “Czech interests first” policy. Some extent of rapprochement with Beijing, while keeping continued Taiwan cooperation (semiconductors). 📖Read more: chinaobservers.eu/czech-electi...
Czech Elections: What’s Next for China Policy? – chinaobservers
On October 3 and 4, Czechs cast their votes to elect a new government for the next four years. Polls suggest a stable victory for the opposition ANO party, led
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October 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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🗳️Czechs vote for a new govt this week, and the populist ANO will probably win. What does it mean for China policy? Paulína Ovečková writes about the possible outcomes
👉https://chinaobservers.eu/czech-elections-whats-next-for-china-policy/
#CzechElections #China #Taiwan #ForeignPolicy #volby
October 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM