⭐️ China

Over the past few decades, China has transformed itself from a developing country into the world's second-largest economy – with far-reaching influence on global markets, political power structures, and technological innovation. As a key player in world trade, a major manufacturing hub, and a political counterweight to Western industrialized nations, China now plays a pivotal role in virtually all areas of international relations.

Through its state-directed economic strategy, large-scale infrastructure projects like the Belt and Road Initiative, and its expansive foreign policy, the Asian giant is increasingly influencing the global order. At the same time, the country faces major challenges: demographic change, environmental problems, economic transformation, and tensions with other world powers.

Here we comprehensively examine the economic, political, technological and social developments in China – and analyze the country's significance for Europe, the global South and the international future order.