Sanne van der Lugt over het China-Afrika forum bij BNR Nieuwsradio

‘Het China Afrika-forum is een festijn waar China kan uitstralen dat het hele goede connecties heeft met dit enorme Afrikaanse continent’, zegt LeidenAsiaCentre’s Sanne van der Lugt bij BNR Nieuwsradio. Op het China Afrika-forum in Beijing maakte Xi Jinping bekend dat China de komende drie jaar Afrika met 50 miljard dollar financieel gaat steunen. Ook […]

Chinese Investments and Businesses

There is wide interest in the Netherlands in the nature and impact of Chinese investments and businesses that establish themselves in the Netherlands. This interest is evident not only among government bodies but also in the Dutch business sector and the media. PROJECT The research questions in this project focused attention on two key objectives: […]

Report: China, the EU and the Netherlands – A Chinese Perspective

“” Recent shifts in international relations increase the importance of the relations between China, as a rising power, and the EU. Vincent Chang, fellow at the LeidenAsiaCentre since November, illustrates how diplomats, policy makers and IR-specialists in Beijing, Shanghai, Brussels and the Hague view this challenge. Especially with the question: Do they see a role for the Netherlands? The full report […]

China’s Role in Cyber Security

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the emergence of China as a primordial global power are two of the most impactful political events of our generation. They are also profoundly intertwined at various levels: China not only sees ICTs as essential to its continued development, it is also enmeshed in rapidly […]

The Effect of the Influx of Chinese Students and Knowledge Workers in the Netherlands

  This project studied the suitability of Dutch education for Chinese students and the question of whether and to what extent it is necessary and desirable to make modifications to the education provided to these students. The  project compiled an inventory of the approaches that are adopted – and why – by Dutch educational insitutions […]

The Image of The Netherlands in Chinese Media

Over the past decade, the Netherlands has enjoyed considerable and increasing coverage in the Chinese media, yet very little is known about how exactly the Netherlands – or more broadly speaking Europe – is being presented or why specific topics or angles are being chosen. AIM The limited knowledge gets in the way of effective Dutch public […]