MapInfluence analysts Ivana Karásková and Filip Šebok featured in media across India, Vietnam, and Indonesia as many nations in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific seek to compare European experiences with China.
In particular, the media in Vietnam and Indonesia sought to examine China’s Belt and Road Initiative with much of the analysis borrowing from insights offered by both MapInfluenCE and its sister project China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE).
Vietnamese reviews of the issue in Thanh Niên and Khoa học và Đời sống are available at the links provided. An Indonesian examination of the alleged “Gateway to Europe” is available here.
Meanwhile, Indian business media took a greater interest in debt diplomacy deployed by China in the BRI and the general dissatisfaction many European nations feel after years of empty investment promises from Beijing as the 17+1 begins to falter.
“For a long time, China was seen as a new exciting potential investor that would bring a new impetus to [Central and Eastern European] economies…But in most cases, the actual results of the Chinese investments have fallen behind expectations…The fact that a lot of the investment was not actually job-bringing greenfield investment also made the situation worse. So the expectations that China will be a new promising investor are much more muted now.”
Šebok in “Business World”
The full article from Indian publication Business World is available in English here.
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