Professor Julie Yu-Wen Chen will deliver a speech in Stockholm’s Institute of Security and Development Policy on April 8.

In response to a rising number of academic papers that empirically examine local variances in China’s Belt and Initiative (BRI) projects in various foreign lands, Julie Chen’s presentation will pinpoint the difficulties that attempting to theorize BRI projects brings with them.

The Sino-localized approach and the assemblage theory were the two main attempts used by scholars from disparate academic disciplines to conceptualize local agency and to understand how local conditionalities, practices, and norms may affect the outcome of BRI projects. Nonetheless, Chen’s key argument is that it is vital to examine both differences and similarities of current BRI projects to  determine whether the local conditions and Beijing’s aims are, in fact, irreconcilable.

More info: https://www.isdp.eu/event/reconciling-different-approaches-to-conceptualizing-the-glocalization-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative-projects/

Julie Yu-Wen Chen’s comments in Helsingin Sanomat on 23 March, 2022. In the comments, she explains the Chinese views on the war in Ukraine. Please read the comments here: Kiina ei halua olla välittäjänä Ukrainan ja Venäjän välillä.