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Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
On 2 February, Pentagon officials announced that an object they described as a “Chinese intelligence balloon” had been spotted over US territory. It reportedly entered American airspace over Alaska on 28 January. Later, after transiting…
Analyses |
| Marcin Popławski, Michał Bogusz, Krzysztof Strachota
On 5–6 January 2023, Turkmenistan’s president Serdar Berdimuhamedow paid a state visit to China. During his meeting with Xi Jinping, marking the 31st anniversary of the establishment of their countries’ diplomatic relations, the two…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
On 8 January, the quarantine requirement for people arriving in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), introduced in March 2020, was lifted. The decision is part of an abrupt U-turn on the ‘zero COVID’ strategy that began late last year. On…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Bogusz
In November 2022, China’s leader Xi Jinping embarked on a wide-ranging diplomatic campaign to prevent an uncontrolled breakdown of relations with the West, which should be considered a short-term success, at least in terms of reopening…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
On 26–28 November, protests against the ‘zero COVID’ strategy (see ‘China: the consequences of the ‘zero COVID’ strategy’) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) intensified. They also featured political slogans calling for the…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
On 10 November, the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the country’s most important party body, held a meeting whose topics included ‘optimising prevention and control measures to…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Bogusz
The 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended with the complete triumph of Xi Jinping and marks the culmination of a process of radical overhaul of the political system created in the 1980s and 1990s. It marks not only the…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz, Lidia Gibadło
On 4 November, Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Beijing, where he met with Chairman of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang. Scholz was accompanied by representatives of German companies, including…
Analyses |
| Michał Bogusz
The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP) began in Beijing on 16 October.
Analyses |
| Krzysztof Strachota, Katarzyna Chawryło, Michał Bogusz, Marek Menkiszak
On 15–16 September, the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO; see Appendix) was held in Samarkand, with the participation of the leaders of its member states – China, Russia, India, Pakistan and all Central Asian…