MERICS Foresight Workshop: Panel with DWARC work package leaders and members to discuss China’s future trajectory

These are challenging times for China’s government, as social and economic pressures continue to worsen: economic growth is sluggish, geopolitical tensions – and the United States’ tariffs – threaten China’s export-oriented economic model and its ambitious goal of modernizing its industrial base. Beijing, however, still sees some opportunities to improve its global standing and its relations with Europe and other countries.

To discuss these issues, MERICS organized a foresight exercise in the context of the China Horizons project meeting for DWARC partners and participants in Paris. The workshop brought together 20 participants from the society and culture, party-state politics, economy, regional and global strategies, and EU-China relations work packages to discuss China’s trajectory. Held in a closed-door, off-the-record setting, the 2-hour interactive workshop encouraged informal discussions on developments in China and the trends that are expected to most profoundly shape China and its global role over the next five years.

For more information on the event, please check MERICS website here