The EU wants to learn more about the Middle Kingdom. On 25 January, it launched a specific scholarship programme on China.
The resources created should feed into the Commission’s internal advisory body, ‘IDEA’, which provides research on priority topics for the EU.
In recent weeks, China has been mentioned repeatedly in speeches by the President of the European Commission and of the European Council, who referred to the challenges that China poses in terms of competition, for example.
The Commission aims to bring together researchers from universities and think tanks specialising in political, social, economic, digital, environmental or security issues related to China.
The programmes will run for a period of 6 to 12 months. (Original version in French by Léa Marchal)