On March 19th, the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden arranged a webinar on ”EU-China Relations in a Rapidly Changing World.”
The Belt and Road Institute in Sweden (BRIX) organized a webinar to discuss the dramatic changes underway in 2025 with European and Chinese experts. 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 whether the EU will take this opportunity to embrace the BRI. This would mean the final abandonment of geopolitically minded zero-sum policies that 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 technological and economic development, there will be ways to achieve common global peace and prosperity. Nonetheless, great challenges exist.
These are the questions we raise in this webinar:
- 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?
The BRIX members believe that the Belt and Road Initiative is the appropriate framework for facilitating increased cooperation and dialogue in 2025.
Specific steps can be taken by the EU to improve its current precarious situation.
00:00 Introduction by Stephen Brawer, Chairman of Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.
02:06 Remarks by Mr. Wan Degang, Chargé d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden.
12:21 Remarks entitled ”Europe at the Crossroads” by Stephen Brawer.
24:29 Remarks entitled “An Age of Global Uncertainty – China as the Pillar of Stability” by Erik Solheim, President of the Europe-Asia Center in Brussels, Former Executive Director of the UN Environment Program, Former Minister of Development of Norway, Vice-President of the International Green Belt and Road Coalition.
42:32 Remarks by Professor Bojan Lalic, Director of the Belt and Road Institute in Belgrade.
56:03 Remarks entitled “One Earth and a Shared Future for Humanity: Why Multipolarity Will Lead to Peace and Nationalism is a Dead End” by Bernd Einmeier, President of DCG Entrepreneur for Business Development and Startups, President of German-Chinese Friendship Association, Germany.
1:19:14 Remarks entitled “Rethinking China-EU Relationship in the context of the 50th Anniversary” by Professor Li Xing, Director of European Research Center at Guangdong Institute for International Strategies, Professor of International Relations at Aalborg University, Denmark.
1:32:21 Remarks entitled “The Netherlands/EU-China Relations in a Changing Global Order” by Jan-Menke Hopma, Founder and Chairman of Innovasian Bridge, Holland.
1:43:06 Remarks entitled “From Tito’s Yugoslavia to the West of the Silk Road: the Testimony of a Witness” by Dr. Tomaz Amon, President of the Slovenian-Chinese Friendship Association, Slovenia.
1:49:51 Presentation by Hussein Askary, Vice Chairman of the Belt and Road Institute in Sweden, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Guangdong Institute for International Strategies.
2:06:14 Closing remarks by Stephen Brawer.
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