(THREAD) @_EuropeanValues Center just published this report: HOW TO PROTECT THE CZECH ECONOMY FROM FOREIGN PREDATORS?
Supported by @CIPEglobal @CIPE_EEA, authored by @phamphi, @MarcikFrantisek, @RichardKraemer7 & myself.
We talked to 30 Czech key govt & business leaders:
We asked the Czech govt & business leaders: How to safeguard Czech democracy and fair business environment from (mainly) Chinese state-organised predators?
Full report: europeanvalues.cz/wp-content/upl…
For EVC as mainly national security-focused think-tank, we benefited from @CIPEglobal approach (thanks to @eric_hontz & @jeffdlightfoot and their teams) on how to think about defending fair business environment from foreign predators.
What Czech govt insiders + business say:
Here our @_EuropeanValues research team identified the main Chinese economic interference tools, we assessed their main objectives and specific real-life examples.
The list of Chinese malign practices could be long, so we have identified main categories to make sure we see the major gaps in European policy responses:
Europeans are now learning that national security needs to cover economic security since China uses this gateway as a tool for strategic blackmail of European democracies.
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