🇨🇿 🇸🇰 Head of Prague Office @CEIAS_eu | China researcher
Prague, Czech Republic
Joined July 2010
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Filip Šebok retweeted
1/7 Great to see our "EU Semiconductor Geopolitical Risk Survey: Outlook for 2026-2031" covered by @Reuters, @POLITICOEurope, @RE_Exchanges!
To make good industrial/trade policies, policymakers must graple with how industry perceives the geopolitical/internal threat landscape...
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Happy to see "The EU Semiconductor Geopolitical Risk Survey: Outlook for 2026-2031", our new CHIPDIPLO-foresight tool, extensively covered by @lbsterling of @Reuters
Please find full survey results here: institutmontaigne.org/en/pub…
@sbeverts
New survey of European semiconductor sector paints a bleak picture. "While Beijing still appears to be the biggest threat, dependence on Washington seems to have become of much greater concern under the 2nd Trump administration", explains @joristeer.
reuters.com/world/china/chin…
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Adoption of air conditioning in Europe at U.S. levels would bring massive health benefits, while the emission implications would be minuscule, unlike many suggest - and, done right, it would help the clean energy transition by boosting electrification and clean energy. 🧵
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🇨🇳It was our pleasure to welcome @cermpetr (AMO) and @FilipSebok (CEIAS) for a roundtable on the topic of China’s growing footprint in the Western Balkans.
We debated how Chinese influence is reshaping the region’s economic and political landscape and its scope and implications
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Here's a project I've been working on recently: a vision of what happens if Europe doesn't take AI seriously, inspired by AI 2027 europe2031.ai/
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Why did private firms, not state-owned enterprises (SOEs), come to dominate China’s EV sector?
My new @ChinaJournal article (co-authored with Xiao Ma @maxiaoalex) challenge the "top-down industrial policy" narrative.
The real engine? Strategic alliances between local governments and private capital. 🧵
Based on 3+ years of fieldwork, 60+ interviews (with officials, entrepreneurs, and engineers), and rich first-hand accounts, we show how strict central regulations inadvertently drove local states to bet big on private EV players.
Here is the story: (1/15)
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While most 🇪🇺 states are increasingly open to engaging with Taiwan, they do so at differing speeds and with divergent risk appetites.
Based on the level of development of individual countries’ economic & political ties with 🇹🇼, 4 groups of countries clearly emerge.
See below!
Filip Šebok retweeted
📢NEW CEIAS REPORT
📄 Edited by @MatejSimalcik, @KristinaKi6, & @AlfredGerstl, the report provides the 1st comprehensive, bottom-up analysis of bilateral relations between 🇹🇼 & 🇪🇺, its 27 member states, & three closely linked non-EU partners 🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇴
➡️ ceias.eu/partners-in-need-pa…
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Looks like we’re about to sell H200s to China. This is 6 times more powerful than the H20, which is the best chip we sell them.
Strong words from @SenWarren below:
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Takaichi Sanae's views on WW2/history, from a 2004 column on her website:
•textbooks should feature "the great achievements of our predecessors"
•Japan's "overseas advances" should not be called "aggression"
•"it is clear that Japan's intent was to fight a defensive war"
Filip Šebok retweeted
Told @Reuters that "this week of triumphant diplomacy for Xi shows that he remains totally in charge of the elite politics of the Communist Party"
Check out their great data visualization that compares China's military parades in 2015, 2019, and 2025
Lots more drones!
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„Peking ukázal, že jeho globální postavení je podpořené významnou vojenskou mocí, a že je odhodlaný ji použít. (...)Nejpravděpodobnější scénář pro využití těchto kapacit [je] obsazení Tchaj-wanu a dosažení takzvaného znovusjednocení Číny,“ říká Filip Šebok
voxpot.cz/signal-pro-zapad-c…
Filip Šebok retweeted
📊 NEW CEIAS SURVEY!
Drawing on a large-scale survey conducted in early 2025, this report provides a fresh look at how #Taiwan 🇹🇼 is perceived across the #Visegrad region.
See our key #findings below! 1/5 🧵👇
The full CEIAS report ➡️ ceias.eu/friends-with-limita…
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Compare and contrast: EU officials like to complain about China's negotiating strategy - its "stinky fish" punitive measures
"You put a stinky fish on my desk & you want me to pay you to take it away"
scmp.com/news/china/diplomac…
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📢 NEW RESEARCH OUT NOW!
Our new paper 📄 presents a first in-depth exploration of narratives about China 🇨🇳 in Central Europe that links the polling of public opinion 📊 with a systematic analysis of social media. 📱
🔗 Access the full report: ceias.eu/echoes-and-resistan…
🧵👇
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Aký veľký je rozdiel v postojoch v ČR a SR v otázke ruskej invázie na Ukrajinu?
Myslím, že o čosi menší, než sa nám často zdá.
open.substack.com/pub/postpo…
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Three questions to @ChengTingFang , Chief Tech Correspondent @NikkeiAsia, on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry as the indispensable industrial hub of the A.I revolution, and the various domestic and international challenges it faces. institutmontaigne.org/en/exp…
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Codasip je na prodej. Český výrobce procesorů a konkurent ARM má strategický význam pro Evropu.
Celý článek od @jansedlak 👉 e15.cz/byznys/cesky-cipovy-k…
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❗Project Event❗
On 26 June, we held a #CHIPDIPLO event on “Strategic Autonomy or Strategic Indispensability? Identifying the EU’s Semiconductor Lodestar”, CSDS led the first such dialogue in partnership with @EU_ISS & @Brainport_int.
More info🔸 csds.vub.be/event/strategic-…
