In this episode of Orion Talks, Marta Furlan is joined by Prof Min Ye to discuss President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to France, Serbia, and Hungary – his first visit to Europe in five years. Prof. Ye sheds light on the overall objective of this trip and explains how this trip situates itself within China’s foreign policy objectives and China-EU relations. From there, Prof Ye guides us through the climate that has characterized China-EU relations in the past few years and shares her valuable thoughts on how Xi Jinping’s visit can be expected to impact EU-China relations and intra-European relations, specifically relations between EU countries that have a more skeptical and restrained approach to China and EU countries that are much more open and willing to engage with Beijing. She also discusses the positive way in which this European trip was received in China. Finally, she concludes with her reflections on how the United States reacted to the visit.
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