READ THE REPORT By Suzanne Scoggins. Supported by the Dutch China Knowledge Network (CKN). Efforts of Chinese police to build connections in foreign countries have been growing for decades, but the issue reached peak salience in the Netherlands in 2022…
Daan Kingma December 2023 In the Dutch general elections on the 22nd of November, populist and anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom secured a landslide victory, marking an unprecedented shift in the Dutch political landscape. On the other side…
READ THE REPORT The tide of great power strife is rising once again. When tensions between rivals increase, the need to understand each other becomes greater. Where newspapers write about geopolitical considerations, Undercurrents dives deeper below the surface. It argues…
Sinds 2022 voeren China en de Verenigde Staten een woordenstrijd over de zeerechtelijke status van de Straat van Taiwan, met name over de vraag of de Straat van Taiwan juridisch als ‘internationale wateren’ moet worden beschouwd, zoals de VS betogen….
READ THE REPORT By Lindsay Black, Marte Boonen and Anoma van der Veere. This report examines the Japanese government’s contribution to the liberal international order and assesses this contribution against what critics have identified as democratic backsliding under the Prime…
Recently LAC research fellow Friso Dubbelboer spoke about two collisions between Chinese and Philippine ships on the Dutch radio.Friso Dubbelboer is a Dutch political scientist, geopolitical analyst, and writer. After graduating in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, he…
