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Populism and the China question: implications for EU foreign policymaking 民粹主义与中国问题：对欧盟外交决策的影响

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00763-y

Anastas Vangeli

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Transportation costs and financial development in the Asia–Pacific: A CS-ARDL approach to macroeconomic interdependencies 亚太地区的运输成本和金融发展：宏观经济相互依赖的CS-ARDL方法

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00761-0

Atteq Ur Rehman, Nabila Khurshid, Mudassar Rashid

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Analyzing Türkiye’s strategic interests in the Indo-Pacific: opportunities and challenges in the European Union context 分析俄罗斯在印太地区的战略利益：欧盟背景下的机遇与挑战

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00758-9

Gürol Baba, Hatice Çelik

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Asia in flux: network power, new regionalism, and global development 变化中的亚洲：网络力量、新区域主义和全球发展

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00759-8

Hong Liu, Chen Li, Guanie Lim

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The challenges of Sino-Russian alignment to the liberal international order in Southeast Asia 中俄结盟对东南亚自由国际秩序的挑战

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00755-y

Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Monique Taylor, Alfred Gerstl, Kristina Kironska

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The European Union’s investment screening framework and China—a complicated picture 欧盟的投资审查框架和中国——一幅复杂的图景

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00757-w

Tamás Peragovics, Ágnes Szunomár

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The many faces of the Chinese Communist Party’s outreach in Europe 中国共产党向欧洲伸出援手的许多方面

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00754-z

Julia Bader, Christine Hackenesch

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The risks of continuity—pitfalls of the EU’s policy stance on China after the European elections of 2024 2024年欧洲大选后欧盟对华政策立场的连续性陷阱风险

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00752-1

Frank Gaenssmantel

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A complex challenge: how China shapes Japan’s security partnership with the EU 一个复杂的挑战：中国如何塑造日本与欧盟的安全伙伴关系

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00753-0

Elena Atanassova-Cornelis

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Back to the Cold War era in-betweenness: Italy’s China strategy in the context of the Indo-Pacific framework 回到冷战时期：印太框架下的意大利对华战略

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-025-00749-w

Beatrice Gallelli, Marco Zappa

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