Dear colleagues, The European Council on Foreign Relations is pleased to announce the publication of a new policy memo: ‘China’s Janus-faced response to the Arab revolutions’, by ECFR Senior Policy Fellow Jonas Parello-Plesnerand ECFR China Programme Associate Raffaello Pantucci. Analysing China’s reaction to the North African unrest, this paper outlines how Beijing was caught off guard by the Arab Spring. Its first response in Libya was to go along with international sanctions against Gaddafi while evacuating thousands of Chinese citizens. It then changed tack and opposed international action, while cracking down on any threat of internal dissent. This zigzagging response to the crisis points to the new pressures that Beijing is under, from growing international interests to a population that is increasingly connected to events abroad. It also suggests that Europe may have greater opportunity to encourage both Chinese engagement in the international community and reform within China itself. In particular, the paper examines how:
Arguing that the EU has the opportunity to push for greater Chinese concern for human rights and Chinese responsibility on the international stage, the authors recommend that:
We hope that you will find the paper interesting and stimulating. We would welcome your comments and feedback on this memo, which can be addressed to the authors directly at: jonas.parello-plesner@ecfr.eu and rpantucci@gmail.com. Link to full memo:http://www.ecfr.eu/content/entry/chinas_janus_faced_response_to_the_arab_revolutions
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