It's been a pleasure to join @connectedtwplus.bsky.social to chat about #EU and its #criticalmineral conundrums caused by #China and its export control regime.

Estonia and Taiwan are stuck in a stalemate over plans to open a Taiwanese office in Tallinn, illustrating difficulties in Taipei-Europe ties even as both feel pressure from China & Russia. w/ comments from @matejsimalcik.bsky.social and @williamyang120.bsky.social asia.nikkei.com/politics/int...

On stalled of 🇹🇼 office in 🇪🇪: "While Lithuania recovered from Beijing's pressure, this episode also served as a deterrent for other European countries. It's crucial for #Taiwan to open a mission in #Estonia and demonstrate institutional momentum, regardless of the office's name."

It’s Time for #India to Partner Strategically With the Visegrad Four: Swati Prabhu, @matejsimalcik.bsky.social, and Jagannath Panda thediplomat.com/2025/10/time... via @thediplomat.com #V4 #politics #foreignpolicy #economy

🇰🇷 @matejsimalcik.bsky.social & Adam Kalivoda visited @hi_kosti to exchange views on key challenges: 📌 Preventing proliferation of dual-use & sensitive technologies 📌 How to improve export control compliance in the R&I sector 📌 Embedding export control into a broader research security framework

Eager to keep updated on geo-economics & economic security? Make sure you subscribe to my #substack. chasingcorrosivecapital.substack.com

@matejsimalcik.bsky.social komentoval aktuálne 🇨🇿-🇨🇳 napätie po návšteve dalajlámu Petrom Pavlom. Celý komentár nájdete v článku 👇 spravy.stvr.sk/2025/08/cina...

🇨🇿🇨🇳 Pavel’s private meeting with the Dalai Lama has resonated positively at home. This reflects a broader trend of skepticism toward China, writes @matejsimalcik.bsky.social. Click the link in comment for more from @ceias-eu.bsky.social.

How did #Beijing become a privileged partner of 🇬🇷 universities? 🗞️ Read the new interview with @matejsimalcik.bsky.social and our project partner Konstantinos Tsimonis in ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ. They explain how China 🇨🇳 promotes its narrative through academic programs & institutes 🎓 and why this raises concerns.

@matejsimalcik.bsky.social is currently attending the NATO Public Forum in The Hague –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ a conference held alongside the #NATOSummit. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte opened the forum w/ a strong call to enhance the Alliance’s defense capabilities & resilience in light of threats from 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳.

@matejsimalcik.bsky.social spoke at the conference Europe & the Indo-Pacific in a Changing Global Landscape hosted by National Chengchi University. He presented some preliminary thoughts from his ongoing research on potential 🇪🇺–🇹🇼 cooperation on #EconomicSecurity. 🛡️ Here are some key takeaways 👇

🚘 Martin Šebeňa, Filip Šebok, and @matejsimalcik.bsky.social presented today key findings from CEIAS research on #EV and #battery investments from #China, #Japan, and #SouthKorea at the EP. 🇪🇺 🙏 Thanks to MEP Miriam Lexmann & Jan Farský for hosting us, & Žiga Faktor for organizing the event. (1)

📊 NEW DATA RELEASE: China-Europe Academic Engagement Tracker We've expanded our #tracker – a tool offering data-driven analysis on research security & academic cooperation with 🇨🇳 – to include #8 more 🇪🇺 countries! 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇬🇷🇸🇮🇨🇾🇱🇺🇦🇲🇦🇿 🔗 Visit our tracker to explore the data! academytracker.ceias.eu/map/eu

Our new public opinion #survey in Central European countries shows very interesting insigths about various aspects of perception of #China, #Russia, #USA, #EU & #NATO. 🇨🇿🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰 ✏️ Co-authored with Filip Šebok. 🔗 ceias.eu/central-euro...

NEW REPORT ALERT 🚨 Our new situation #report 📊 maps social media 💬📱 #discourse about China within the V4 states. This project is in cooperation with @MatejBelUni supported by @EMIF_Fund managed by @FCGulbenkian 🔗: ceias.eu/situation-re... See the key takeaways 👇 (1/5)

Very excited for @ceias-eu.bsky.social to be part of this timely initiative.

🇪🇺🇰🇷 Our Executive Director, @matejsimalcik.bsky.social talked about how #EU & #SouthKorea can cooperate in #cybersecurity 🛡️ and countering #disinformation 📱 at yesterday's meeting of European Parliament Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

The new CEEasia Briefing is out! In this issue, we dissect the following topics: 1️⃣ Wang Yi meets Czech Foreign Minister 🇨🇳🇨🇿 2️⃣ Czechia and South Korea hold a supply chain & energy dialogue in Seoul 🇨🇿🇰🇷 3️⃣ Vietnam-Hungary relations 🇻🇳🇭🇺 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/ceeasi...

How should democracies respond to #HybridThreats? This key issue was discussed in a panel by @europeanvalues.bsky.social. Experts shared insights on tackling hybrid threats in 🇹🇼 & CE at this critical point in time. 🗣️ Adriana Cerna, @matejsimalcik.bsky.social , Chyungly Lee 🎤 @jamesbaron.bsky.social

Dealing with Trump and US retreat from Europe needs more than panicked calls for deeper EU-China cooperation. My latest for @visegradinsight.bsky.social

What's next for #CEE – #Taiwan and CEE – #China relations? Together with @zsuzsettte.bsky.social we talked about possible trajectories of development - read more on @9dashline.com.

The evolving relationship between Taiwan and Central and Eastern Europe is the focus of a new discussion between @zsuzsettte.bsky.social and @matejsimalcik.bsky.social, Taiwan Fellowship recipient at INDSR Taipei. Here they explore the strategic and geopolitical implications. buff.ly/4hpx9AG

It was a pleasure to join the good Visegrad friends here in Taipei – @yehaoqin.bsky.social, @zsuzsettte.bsky.social & @nasredinhoja.bsky.social – and represent @ceias-eu.bsky.social for a discussion on the #Taiwan - #EU and Taiwan - #CEE, relations hosted by the @europeanvalues.bsky.social.

It was a pleasure to join the good Visegrad friends here in Taipei – @yehaoqin.bsky.social, @zsuzsettte.bsky.social & @nasredinhoja.bsky.social – and represent @ceias-eu.bsky.social for a discussion on the #Taiwan - #EU and Taiwan - #CEE, relations hosted by the @europeanvalues.bsky.social.

As always, a great conversation with @zsuzsettte.bsky.social on the trajectory of #EU - #Taiwan relations.

“China always has this anxiety that the US & EU would work together to deal w/ China, so the upcoming regime change in 🇺🇸 presents an opportunity for 🇨🇳 to exploit the anxiety that 🇪🇺 states have about the 2nd Trump adm.,” @matejsimalcik.bsky.social told VOA News. www.voanews.com/a/china-reac...

I am excited to start my visiting fellowship with the Institute for National Defense and Security Research (INDSR) in Taipei, where I will be analyzing #Taiwan's economic & research #security policies and what can we in the #EU learn from them.

𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗢’𝗦 𝗨𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗜 🇻🇳 Slovak PM Robert #Fico surfaced in Hanoi after weeks of public absence. Though the trip to Hanoi is private, we can't ignore its implications for #Slovakia - #Vietnam relations given their troubled history. 🧵/1

📄 In our new briefing, @matejsimalcik.bsky.social & Filip Šebok unpack the key takeaways from Robert #Fico’s Nov 2024 trip to China: ✅ Full Itinerary ✅ List of Agreements & MoUs ✅ Political & Economic Outcomes ✅ Future Outlook of the evolving 🇨🇳-🇸🇰 ties ceias.eu/slovakias-ch...

Check out our new report about the discourse on #China #EVs and the EU countervailing #tariffs found in the #V4 social media space.

It is not every day that presidential #elections are annulled by courts in Europe. The news that this happened in #Romania is a breakthrough – from political, security, and legal perspectives. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

🇨🇳 China expands its visa-free policy to 5️⃣ more EU countries, bringing the total to 2️⃣4️⃣ EU countries with visa-free access. ✅ 30 days visa-free for business, tourism, family visits & more. Aims to boost tourism & economy. 🔎 Which EU countries are in & which ones are still excluded? Take a look!

This is a further confirmation of what I have been saying all along. #Slovakia getting visa-free access to China is not a major diplomatic breakthrough. It is #China following its own interests, with Slovakia being a latecomer within the #EU to the relaxing of the #visa regime.

Slovak PM Robert #Fico's trip to #China in November was megalomaniac, politically problematic, and non-transparent. To overcome the lack of #transparency, I am making public the documents that I obtained via FOIA requests (a mix of SK, EN, and CN language documents). www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

@matejsimalcik.bsky.social highlighted for @voanews.bsky.social that Taiwan's collaboration on drone supplies to Ukraine, along with its focus on deepening bilateral cooperation in this sector with Lithuania & Poland, aligns with these countries’ security priorities. www.voanews.com/a/taiwan-see...

Did you miss our discussion on the intertwined nature of the Euro-Atlantic & Indo-Pacific security? You can now watch the video recap. visegradinsight.eu/video-recap-...

In my latest piece for the @visegradinsight.bsky.social, I discuss the intertwining of Euro-Atlantic and #IndoPacific security concerns, which is no longer a hypothetical scenario. What should the #CEE countries do to stay ready and mitigate negative impacts of such crises? Find out more here.

One fascinating aspect of Robert Fico’s and #Slovakia government’s discourse on #China is its apparent defeatism and self-peripheralization. The official foreign policy is framed as an “all-azimuth” and “sovereign” policy aimed at securing “national interests.” 🧵1/2

Yesterday, we celebrated the 35th anniversary of the #VelvetRevolution, a major milestone on a path to #democracy in #Slovakia and Czechia. Yet, there was no official celebration organized by the government to commemorate the anniversary. 🧵1/3

Looking forward to this chat on the increasingly intertwined nature of security in #Europe and #Indopacific. Join us this Thursday!

PM #Fico's trip to #China represents the worst instincts of #Slovakia 's foreign policy. While the trip yielded only underwhelming economic results, it brought Bratislava into much closer political alignment with Beijing. thediplomat.com/2024/11/does...