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Economy and Diplomacy: China’s two Challenges in the Post-Covid-19 World

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19 May 2020
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Will China rise stronger from the pandemic? A flow of media reports and op-eds have recently flourished, forecasting the decline of the West and the triumph of China on the world stage amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some have declared the dawn of a “post-Western world”.

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The significance of the France-Japan partnership

12 July 2018
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A dialogue with Yoshiji NOGAMI, Vice-Chairman of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA).

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Dual system of professional training: keystone of "made in Germany"?

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11 July 2018
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The German dual system of professional training is seen as an international reference model. It aims at training qualified employees for an innovative economy rather than being the last resort for less able pupils. Parents and adolescents regard apprenticeships as an entry ticket to a good job with career opportunities; companies value the advantages of practice-oriented training in situ conceived in cooperation with its own professionals as this spares them the costs of integrating school graduates.

Gerhard BOSCH

Michala MARCUSSEN - Trump: One Year After The Election

15 December 2017
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Is the American economy doing well? Will the Tax Reform change this? How could the bond markets evolve in 2018?

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Hong Kong, 20 ans years after the retrocession

01 July 2017
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20 years after its retrocession to China, the 1st July 1997, what are the political and institutionnal autonomy guaranties for Hong Kong, while Carrie Lam is about to take its lead? How long will Hong Kong youth claim its own identity? What challenges for the World City?

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the New Regional Geopolitics

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29 June 2017
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) brings a dimensional shift in the two countries' relations at a time of significant geopolitical change. But while it promises wide-ranging benefits for infrastructure development and economic growth in Pakistan, a number of important challenges remain to be overcome if the project is to be sustainable and produce long-term benefits for Pakistanis.

Zahid HUSSAIN
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Political Targets: Womenomics as an Economic and Foreign Relations Strategy

Date de publication
26 April 2017
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This paper provides an overview of the womenomics strategy launched by Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and shows how a plan designed to mitigate Japan’s demographic crises and labor shortages also evolved into a foreign relations strategy to help manage Japan’s reputation abroad on gender equality.

Linda HASUNUMA
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Economics in Narendra Modi’s Foreign Policy

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31 August 2015
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A distinct feature of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first year in office was the remarkable speed and alacrity with which he moved on external engagement. During his first twelve months as Prime Minister, he travelled to almost twenty countries in different parts of the world. Indeed, Modi appeared to be guided by the impression that high rates of economic growth cannot be generated only by domestic policies and initiatives.

Amitendu PALIT
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China’s growth declines, stock markets fall: what consequences should we be worried about?

24 August 2015
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All the European stock exchanges declined on Monday, as concerned investors looked with pessimism at China’s slowing growth. Paris lost 5.35 %. Claude Meyer discusses what consequences can be expected.

The video is available in French

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Shanghai’s stock market woes hit European financial centers

24 August 2015
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Claude Meyer answers Jean-Baptiste Boursier’s questions in “le Grand Angle” on BFMTV.

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