WARSAW - Visiting senior Chinese legislator Wang Zhaoguo discussed ways to boost interparliamentary ties with Polish Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz here Thursday.China's National People's Congress (NPC) attached importance to developing friendly contact with the Polish parliament and wanted to further enhance bilateral exchange and cooperation, s......

BEIJING - Chinese companies are showing greater appetite for purchasing equity stakes in Swedish-owned companies, rather than investing in start-up projects, said a Swedish investment official. More than 200 Chinese companies have invested in Sweden in the past 10 years, but large-scale equity transfer has become the new trend, Eddie Chen, vice-pre......

BEIJING - Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday that China will continue to provide convenience of investment for European Union (EU) firms, while urging the EU to expand export of high-tech products and recognize China's market economy status.Hu made the remarks during talks with visiting European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in Beijing."......

Wenzhou, Zhejiang - Shoemakers in East China's Zhejiang province have shifted from a low-cost strategy to target the high-end EU market, since the European Union (EU) lifted anti-dumping duties. Aokang Group Co., Ltd, one of the 1,200 Chinese companies affected by the tariffs, is forging ahead on a new path to avoid being involved in a ne......

TROMSO -- Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barthe Eide said on Monday that Norway will support China's application for the status of a permanent observer to the Arctic Council.Eide gave a definite "yes" answer to the question put to him by a Xinhua reporter if Norway would back China's bid for the permanent observer status in the eight-member regio......

Election season is well underway in Italy with the first round of serious name-calling and finger pointing, as worries begin to emerge that Italy's fragile economy might suffer again from the lack of stewardship amid the politicking.The elections are scheduled to take place from Feb. 24 to 25. But already, Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned as prime m......

Q:What do you think of China’s One-belt-one-road (OBOR) strategy? What does it mean?A:When OBOR was presented by president Xi Jinping in 2013, it was a foreign policy strategy envisaged to improve relations with China´s neighboring countries and to favor the internationalization of Chinese companies. The official document Vision and Actions on ......

Paolo Guerrieri is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome (Italy) and at College of Europe Bruges (Belgium).  He  has visited IES several times. Recently he was speaking to the IES researchers on the European debt crisis. (See the summary of his lecture in Chinese:  http://ies.cass.cn/Article/xshd/lfxz/201211/5672.asp).  After the lectur......

Q: First of all, please tell us a bit ­about the organization you are affiliated with.  
A: I am a Consultant and Professor at ESADE and Academic Contributor of ESADEgeo-Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics. http://www.esadegeo.com/team 
President of ESADEgeo-Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics is Professor Javier Solana. As you know......

BEIJING - Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie held talks with his German counterpart Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg Tuesday to discuss bilateral relationship and military cooperation.Liang, also the State Councilor, said the two countries' relationship has developed in a healthy way with frequent high-level visits and increased mutual political tru......