China and the Mediterranean: Open for business?

This issue of China Analysis, features Chinese think-tankers who share their views on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Europe and its neighbours and, in particular, the Mediterranean, Middle East and North African region.

The specific articles are:

+ China docks at southern Europe’s ports, by Dragan Pavlicevic
+ China’s buying spree in Italy, by Agatha Kratz
+ Chinese perceptions of country risks in north Africa, by Abigaël Vasselier
+ China’s security strategy towards the Middle East, by Moritz Rudolf

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: The EU and China [EPRS: What Think Tanks are thinking, June 2016] http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-eu-and-china-what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

ECFR: Commentary, 19.05.17: China’s Belt and Road – new name, same doubts? http://www.europeansources.info/record/chinas-belt-and-road-new-name-same-doubts/

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