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The EU and Xi: relations remain complicated

After the party congress, EU-China relations are likely to become even more difficult than before – but this also depends on Beijing's position on Russia. China's leadership has one important goal regarding Europe: to prevent a rapprochement with the United States. How will Brussels deal with Xi's third term in office?

By Amelie Richter

Say it in Chinese: 2-4-4-2

The ideologists among China's party leaders are clearly fond of numbers. They can be found in many of Mao Zedong's slogans, and Xi Jinping also likes to use catchy ciphers. In the last ten years, the political language in China changed; with a dictionary alone, some terms in the party language cannot be deciphered. Very good language skills, effort and the Internet can help.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Blowing down the CCP's house of cards

Deng Xiaoping understood that a rules-based system was essential to avoid a repeat of the fanatical terror unleashed under Mao Zedong. But his conviction could not overcome his self-interest, and, as President Xi Jinping has shown, the institutional edifice Deng built in the 1980s turned out to be hollow.

By Experts Table.Briefings