
Matej ŠimalčíkCentral European Institute of Asian Studies
Matej Šimalčík
Master of Laws; Master of International Relations
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Introduction
Professional in law & IR focusing on East Asia. I am interested in Chinese foreign policy, influence of China in Europe, Chinese relations with Central Europe and strategic culture.
Additional affiliations
October 2016 - present
Central European Institute of Asian Studies
Position
- Managing Director
Description
- www.ceias.eu
August 2016 - August 2018
Education
February 2016 - June 2016
September 2015 - December 2016
September 2011 - January 2015
Publications
Publications (59)
Potential negative impacts of economic dependency on China are increasingly scrutinized. However, conventional trade statistics are a poor guide to bilateral export exposures. For a better analysis of risks, countries need to consider the impacts of their indirect trade with China linked to their role in the product supply chains.
This analysis wi...
Responses of Indo-Pacific governments to Russia’s unjustified, unprovoked, and unlawful invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, range from unequivocal condemnation and the imposition of sanctions against Russia (Japan, Singapore, Taiwan) to a cautious middle position of countries leaning either towards Russia or Ukraine (ASEAN, China, India, In...
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The briefing paper analyzes Chinese messaging on war in Ukraine target- ing nine NATO and EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e., Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania.
Report examines China-related narratives on five specific topics (5G, Chinese investment, Hong Kong protests, Xinjiang, and Taiwan) in the ‘alternative media’ in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The paper focuses on media that are traditionally seen as a conduit for pro-Kremlin views, while their coverage of China has so far not been systematically...
The paper looks into the image of China in Slovakia. Following the period of relative disinterest of the media in majority of topics connected with China, media are starting to pay increasingly more attention towards China and various aspects of its development, domestic policy, and foreign affairs. Increased media coverage of China begs to ask the...
Slovakia's approach to China has been dominated for almost fifteen years by prioritizing economic benefits. Domestic political change and the COVID-19 have, however, been important drivers of a changing policy, which is warier of security risks and pays attention to human rights issues. At the same time, public opinion on China in Slovakia has been...
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In the policy paper China’s inroads into Slovak universities: Protecting academic freedoms from authoritarian malign interference, authors Matej Šimalčík and Adam Kalivoda map the academic interactions between Slovak academic institutions (public universities and research institutes of the Slovak Academy of Science) with Chinese entities.
The repo...
In this paper, CEIAS authors aim to evaluate the current state of play of Slovakia’s relations with the three Northeast Asian democracies – South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. To this end, the publication focuses on three distinct aspects of mutual relations – political, economic, and people-to-people relations. While the analysis of relations focuses...
A new report from a team of regional experts across Czechia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, which was published by CHOICE, summarizes the ongoing debates on Huawei’s involvement in each of their respective nations, thus formulating a mosaic of the region at-large.
Primarily, the paper serves to provide an up-to-date ove...
This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion in 13
European countries on China conducted in September and October 2020,
on a research sample (n = 19 673) representative with respect to gender,
age, level of education, country region, and settlement density.
Two-thirds of Swedes hold negative views of China while close to 80 percent distrust the country. These are the results of the comprehensive European public opinion survey that is presented in this report. Of the 13 European countries included in the survey, China’s public image is the most negative in Sweden. Negative public opinion of China in Sw...
This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion on China
in 13 European countries, conducted in September and October
2020, on the research sample representative with respect to gender,
age, level of education, country region, and settlement density. Here, we focus on the Slovak portion of the polling, building on the
previously pub...
This report is a result of a wide-scale study of public opinion on China
in 13 European countries, conducted in September and October
2020, on the research sample representative with respect to gender,
age, level of education, country region, and settlement density. Here,
we focus on the French portion of the polling, building on the
previously pub...
The coronavirus pandemic has shown how important the media are – an essential tool for communication between citizens and government in the time of crisis. In the new policy paper, Matej Šimalčík and Ivana Karásková (Association for International Affairs, Prague) analyze tools which can be used to safeguard media from hostile foreign influence.
Th...
This report, which brings together experts from across the continent, is a collaborative effort of the 21 research institutes that make up the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), of which Ifri is a founding member.
As explained by John Seaman, editor of the report and Research Fellow in Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies, the Covid-19 crisis...
This report, which brings together experts from across the continent, is a collaborative effort of the 21 research institutes that make up the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), of which Ifri is a founding member.
As explained by John Seaman, editor of the report and Research Fellow in Ifri’s Center for Asian Studies, the Covid-19 crisis...
Chinese actions in the South China Sea are often viewed as proof of an assertive China, despite the Chinese claims that their Confucian values make China a peaceful power. This paper analyzes the South China Sea conflict through a prism of strategic culture theory and examines both the Chinese narrative on the conflict as well as the actual Chinese...
This CEIAS policy paper aims to continue the ongoing discussions about China and its political and economic significance for Europe. It specifically analyzes both history and the future of the relations between Slovakia and China while attempting to interpret the Chinese understanding of its foreign policy towards this part of the world. The topic...
This policy paper by CEIAS and partners Association for International Affairs (CZ), Central, Eastern European Center of Asian Studies (HU), and Center for International Relations (PL) aims to explore the perception of China among the political elites of the V4 countries (Slovakia, Czechia, Hungary, and Poland). This publication attempts to look wit...
The article answers how growing intensity of China-V4 relations in the period of 2010–2017 impacted the media discourse of China in Central Europe. While diplomatically speaking China and the Visegrad countries reached perhaps the most positive and intensive relations ever, the top-down impact on people’s perceptions is less clear. Media play an im...
This policy paper by CEIAS researchers aims to explore the possibilities of the multilateral approach towards China within the V4 (V4+China). The first chapter presents an overview of the trade and investment relationship between the V4 countries and China. In the second chapter, we discuss the form and achievements of the V4+Japan and V4+South Kor...
April 2019 brought about the annual succession of China-related summitry for the European countries: the EU-China summit and the meeting of the China-CEEC Cooperation (with the “16+1” transforming into “17+1”).
First, the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang met with the representatives of the EU institutions in Brussels on April 9. This was followed...
Paper looks into the media image of China in Slovakia. Following the period of relative disinterest of the media in majority of topics connected with China, media are starting to pay increasingly more attention towards China and various aspects of its development, domestic policy and foreign affairs. Increased media coverage of China begs to ask th...
In mid-February, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland, cautioning European allies against cooperation with China and Russia, as well as relying on Huawei technology in 5G networks and other critical infrastructure.
In the latest issue of the Chinese Media Watch, authors Runya T. Qiaoan and Matej Šimalčík analyze...
In July, the EU-China relations have undergone the annual flurry of summitry. First, on July 6-7 the meeting of the leaders of the members of the 16+1 cooperation mechanism grouping China and 16 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. This was the seventh 16+1 summit. It was followed by the 20th EU-China Summit hos...
With the passing of the Conception of developing the economic relations between Slovak Republic and People’s Republic of China 2017-2020, Slovakia aims to improve its relations with China. At the same time, Slovakia did not pay such high attention to the 16 + 1 forum in the past as some of its neighbors, even though the 16 + 1 is viewed often as th...
In 2012, a comprehensive judiciary reform came to effect in Slovakia, which aimed (among other things) to increase the transparency of the judiciary. To this end, the law has mandated that all the court decisions must be published online, selection procedures for judges be open to public oversight, and judges have to annually declare their family t...
Policy paper Richarda Q. Turcsányiho a Mateja Šimalčíka sa zaoberá čínsko-slovenskými vzťahmi a kvalitatívnym spôsobom skúma čínske pôsobenie na Slovensku. Na základe rozhovorov a dotazníkov s dôležitými slovenskými osobnosťami venujúcimi sa Číne, diskusiách na verejných a uzavretých debatách, kvalitatívnej analýzy vybraných textov a analýzy dlhodo...
The Rise of China has puzzled IR scholars for several decades. At the heart of the debate lies a question how will an increasingly powerful China act in the international system. Recent Chinese actions in the South China Sea are often viewed as a proof of an assertive China, despite the Chinese claims that their Confucian values make China a peacef...
The present article discusses the implications of ballistic missile defense systems for the stability and security of the Northeast Asian region. The paper aims to find out whether the ballistic missile defense systems contribute to the stability and security of the region, or are rather detrimental to it. A constructivist approach is utilized to a...