Foreign Relations & International Law

ChinaTalk: How Eastern Europe Sees China and The War in Ukraine

Jordan Schneider
Monday, March 7, 2022, 4:31 PM

Matej Šimalčík, Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, joins from Bratislava. 

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Matej Šimalčík, Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, joins from Bratislava to discuss:

  • The reception of BRI in Eastern and Central Europe 10 years on
  • How the war will accelerate changes in opinion towards China
  • Jordan and Matej reminiscing about Pohoda, the greatest music festival on the planet (my writeup from 2015 https://medium.com/@jordanschneider/pohoda-the-world-s-greatest-music-festival-675f3da2ae24)

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This conversation was recorded Feb 27th, 2022.

Outro music (a slovak banger): gleb - Zešlach Crunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMxLdOQns_o

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Jordan Schneider is the host of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter. He previously worked at Kwai, Bridgewater and the Eurasia Group. His Chinese landscape paintings "show promise."

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