China and Central Europe: cooperation in difficult times during the Covid-19 outbreak

European Council President

The comparative case study traces the V4 states’ relations with China since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe and explores how far the existing multilateral format 17 + 1 was able to utilize its potential for strengthening China’s presence through healthcare cooperation to work together in fighting the pandemic.

How have the relations between V4 and China changed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe? How far was the existing multilateral format 17 + 1 able to utilize its potential for strengthening China’s presence through healthcare cooperation to work together in fighting the pandemic?

These are the questions that our senior researcher Rudolf Fürst examined in his new article in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.