Alessia A. Amighini

Alessia A. Amighini

Co-Head of Asia Centre, Senior Associate Research Fellow at ISPI, Associate Professor at the University of Piemonte Orientale

Economist, specializing on China’s international economic relations

She specializes in China’s global economic and trade relations, EU trade and economic relations with Asia, EU external trade and investment policies, EU-Asia trade and investment linkages, bilateral economic, investment and trade analysis, bilateral trade potential and value chain analysis, China’s outward foreign direct investment patterns, international organisation of production and Global Value Chain analysis through social network methods. Chinese strategies for foreign influence, China’s soft power. Renminbi internationalisation, monetary and financial cooperation strategies along the Belt and Road Initiative.

China Horizons publications

Chinese foreign policy

Bruegel First Glance: Can Italy leave the Belt and Road Initiative without a backlash?

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Chinese regional and global strategies

China and the Global South, real friends?

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Chinese foreign policy

China’s third attempt to internationalise its currency

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Chinese economy

The Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 is all about security

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Chinese foreign policy

Third time lucky? China’s push to internationalise the renminbi

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China Horizons events

Chinese economy

To what extent can innovation and global economic dominance mitigate China’s structural slowdown?

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