differences in the region (through a country comparison or over time) and what might account for those variations?
Analysis
International Relations
Prague’s Election Looms Large Over Central Europe’s Security Fate
2 October 2025
Galan Dall interviewed Ivana Karásková about the new report from her initiative, ChinfluenCE, an international project mapping China’s influence in Central Europe through media content and complex analyses of key agenda setters, revealing e.g. links between Czech political and economic elites and the pro-China lobby.
Scroll down for a link to the whole ChinfuenCE report.
Your new report highlights how the parliaments in the region (CZ and HU) have changed their references to China over the past three decades. Have you seen any 
differences in the region (through a country comparison or over time) and what might account for those variations?
There has been a clear difference between the Czech and the Hungarian parliament. The former essentially started in 1990s as being predominantly skeptical towards China, and went through a phase of more positive tendencies surrounding the promises of sizable Chinese investment, to the current situation when China is increasingly regarded as a threat.
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