{"id":3434,"date":"2025-09-01T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.external-democracy-promotion.eu\/de\/the-many-faces-of-the-chinese-communist-partys-outreach-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T00:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:41:49","slug":"the-many-faces-of-the-chinese-communist-partys-outreach-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.external-democracy-promotion.eu\/de\/the-many-faces-of-the-chinese-communist-partys-outreach-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The many faces of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s outreach in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In: Asia Europe Journal<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One influential actor that has been largely overlooked in European debates on China as a \u2018systemic rival\u2019 is the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s International Department (CCP-ID). Building on a comprehensive dataset that allows us to trace China\u2019s international party cooperation since the early 2000s, we not only investigate the CCP-ID\u2019s networking activities across Europe but also zoom in on the CCP-ID\u2019s engagement in the Czech Republic, Germany, and the UK. The main purpose of the CCP-ID is to foster elite networks and to build personal relationships. By identifying and mobilising individuals who will \u2018speak in favour of China\u2019 in domestic political debates within Europe or who publicly endorse China\u2019s positions in Chinese media, the CCP-ID seeks to provide the CCP with external legitimacy. It is the great flexibility in the CCP\u2019s strategies and instruments and the many faces of its activities that make it a potent player in Sino-European relations to which policymakers and academics alike should pay more attention.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10308-025-00754-z\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In: Asia Europe Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The many faces of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s outreach in Europe - EDP Netzwerk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In: Asia Europe Journal One influential actor that has been largely overlooked in European debates on China as a \u2018systemic rival\u2019 is the Chinese Communist\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.external-democracy-promotion.eu\/de\/the-many-faces-of-the-chinese-communist-partys-outreach-in-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The many faces of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s outreach in Europe - 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