North Africa in China’s Strategic Thinking

Hosted by the North Africa Initiative of SAIS Foreign Policy Institute

This hybrid panel discussion explores China’s historical engagement in North Africa, its current policies and strategies, and its future ambitions. This session, which features policymakers and experts from Washington DC, Shanghai, Brussels and North Africa, further addresses the implications of China’s specifically North African engagement for US and EU foreign policy and strategic thinking.

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About the Speakers

Adam K Webb, Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, HNC Resident Professor of Political Science Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Chuchu Zhang, Associate Professor of International Relations, Fudan University

Yahia H. Zoubir, Professor of International Relations and International Management, Director of Research in Geopolitics, KEDGE Business School

Andrea Ghiselli, Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) of Fudan University and non-resident Research Fellow with the TOChina Hub and the Head of Research for the TOChina Hub’s ChinaMed Project

Andrea Cellino, Vice President and Head of North Africa, Middle East Institute Switzerland (MEIS) and Executive-in-Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), (Discussant)

Moderator

Hafed Al-Ghwell, Senior Fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Executive Director of the North Africa Inititiave

Host or Publisher Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute (FPI)