Dear friend of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden,
Our next webinar titled “EU-China Relations in a Rapidly Changing World” will take place on Wednesday March 19th at 10:00 CET (5 PM Beijing time).
You are welcome to join us on Zoom on Wednesday, March 19th at 10:00 CET by clicking this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86429289396
The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) is organizing a webinar to discuss with European and Chinese experts the dramatic changes underway in 2025. These developments, triggered partly by actions taken by President Donald Trump’s Administration, have created possibilities for genuine cooperation and friendship within the global perspective of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The question remains if the EU will take this opportunity to embrace the BRI. This would mean the final abandonment of geopolitically minded zero-sum policies which have separated Europe from Russia and China. As China’s President Xi Jinping expressed it, the nations of the world find themselves in “one boat”.
If we seize the new opportunities for new technological and economic development, there will be ways for achieving common global peace and prosperity. There exist nonetheless great challenges. How will Europe, the EU, and Sweden respond to these dramatic global changes and challenges? How will Sweden and Europe respond to the emerging and rapidly growing Global South and BRICS? These are the questions we raise in this webinar.
The BRIX members believe that the Belt and Road Initiative is the appropriate framework which can facilitate increased cooperation and dialogue in 2025. There are specific steps the EU can take to position itself in a more advantageous position than the current precarious one it finds itself in.
List of speakers
1) Stephen Brawer (moderator): Chairman of Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow of Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.
2) Mr. Wan Degang: Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden.
3) Erik Solheim: President Europe-Asia Center (Brussels), Former Executive Director of UN Environment Program, Former Minister of Development, Norway, Vice-President of the International Green Belt and Road Coalition.
4) Professor Bojan Lalic: Director Belt and Road Institute Belgrade.
5) Einmeier Bernd: President of DCG Entrepreneur for Business Development and Startups, President of German-Chinese Friendship Association, Germany.
6) Professor Li Xing: Director of European Research Center at Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, Professor of International Relations at Aalborg University, Denmark.
7) Professor Ivo Hristov: Professor in Sociology University of Plovdiv, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies Sofia, Bulgaria.
8) Jan-Menke Hopma: Founder and Chairman of Innovasian Bridge, Holland.
9) Dr. Tomaz Amon: President of Slovenian-Chinese Friendship Association, Slovenia.
10) Hussein Askary: Vice Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.
For more information, contact us: [email protected]