US National Security Strategy | Semiconductors | GER/UK-China relations | 20th Party Congress

Welcome to the very first edition of Sinification – a newsletter focusing on foreign affairs as viewed from China. Its main goal will be to provide a weekly round-up of key insights from Chinese think-tank and academic circles on a range of timely international topics.

This week’s edition looks at the following issues:

1. US National Security Strategy: Experts from the Chinese think tank Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) comment on its implications for China.

2. US/Europe-China: Xu Mingqi sees opportunities for his country as risk of stagflation increases in the US and Europe.

3. Semiconductors: Liao Lei and Wang Yaonan provide Beijing with a set of policy recommendations (pre-US export controls).

4. UK-China: Li Guanjie’s warning to Britain were it to follow through with its plan to formally designate China as a “threat”.

5. Germany-China: Wu Huiping discusses Germany's so-called geopolitical turn.

6. 20th Party Congress: Zhu Feng on the importance of “China's voice” in the context of gre…