Far East
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The Peculiar Case of DiDi: What Brussels Learns from China’s Crackdown on Ride-hailing Apps
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyIntroduction On December 3rd, DiDi, the world’s largest ride-hailing app, announced it would delist from New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and move...
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US Sanctions Against Chinese 5G: Inconsistencies and Paradoxical Outcomes
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis piece was co-authored with Robin Baker, a Research Associate at the London School of Economics. US sanctions against Chinese 5G have been...
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The Indispensable Four Per Cent
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyRadio access networks account for just 4% of operators’ cost. So how did it become a public policy discussion? In one of the more surprising news...
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Also-Ran Support for Open RAN
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyOnce in a while, a topic that seems abstruse unexpectedly becomes a subject of broader public debate. When we published our paper on Open RAN, we...
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The Buyer’s Market: How Vendor Exclusions and OPEN RAN Actually Affect Market Concentration
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyOur forthcoming policy brief on Open RAN explores the increasing politicisation of the 5G rollout around the world. In particular, the radio access...
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Calls for Chinese-Style Tech Industrial Policy Won’t Make Europe More Digital Sovereign
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Matthias BauerA leaked draft “Joint Declaration” reveals plans for an EU industrial policy in the cloud and data sector. The proposal is floated...
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Will the U.S. Stance on Chinese Telecom Equipment Change?
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy North AmericaBy: Guest AuthorBy Jerker Hellström, Director of the Swedish Center for China Studies.* With two months left until election day in the U.S., the two...
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Europe’s Dependency on China?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe 22nd EU-China Summit held virtually this week, was the first for the new EU Commission. The meeting takes place against...
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Of Debt and Disease.
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East Latin America South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA street pharmacy in Tanzania (from author’s own archives) Debt relief is not a panacea to tackle the pandemic in the developing countries In midst...
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Time Is Running Out to Address Trade Frictions. For Effective WTO Reform to Happen, the US, EU and China Need to Live Up to Their Responsibilities
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Far East North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityAll three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to...
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China’s Digital Trade Success: Two Different Perspectives
Research Areas: Data, AI, and Emerging Technologies Digital Trade Estimates Project Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy Trade, Globalisation and SecurityIn recent times there has been a lot of talk on how big China’s digital trade actually is and to what extent it poses a threat to the global...
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‘Appetite for Friction’ – Trump Policy Towards China
According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good...