As China and the European Union actively advance their respective strategic industrial plans, bilateral investment relations are undergoing a profound structural shift. Especially against the backdrop of the new round of geopolitical shocks, these two major economies face an increasingly complex external environment of strategic competition. This discussion cuts straight to the core of the interaction between industrial policy and investment. It focuses on decoding the policy orientations and economic security demands of both sides in frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, exploring how their respective industrial policies cross borders to impact two-way investment flows, technological innovation ecosystems, and the global supply chain landscape. 

 

Speaker: Chun Ding, Jean Monnet Chair Professor of Economics, Associate Professor, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University

Speaker: Yao Xu, Secretary-General, Center for Global AI Innovative Governance, Associate Professor, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University

Moderator: Csaba Moldicz, Head of the International Relations School and the Center for International Economy at MCC