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The Rise and Fall of a Friendship: Five Years of Czech-Chinese Relations in Context

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: November 9, 2022, 19:00 – 21:00

Author’s reading and book launch.

Great expectations and even greater disappointment, diplomatic and police manoeuvres, fictitious investments and real debts, intrigues, pre-trial summons and a disappearing advisor – all this and more in one volume!

This event will air more about turbulent relations between the CR and the PRC, from the uncritical zeal of the early years of the “restart” and expectations of major Chinese investments to subsequent crashes such as the collapse of the company CEFC and the scandal of Home Credit’s efforts to influence Czech public opinion.

Also discussed will be how an increasingly assertive China attempts to influence the public at home and abroad and to promote its own narratives, whether that be the situation in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, which is suffering catastrophic human rights violations and genocide, or the (non)investigation into the origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sinologist and director of the project Sinopsis Martin Hála and sinologist and translator Olga Lomová will read and debate.
Chaired by Kateřina Procházková.

Introduced by Jáchym Topol.

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