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Patrycja Pendrakowska and Paweł Behrendt on navigating Sino-Polish relations

We are proud to annouce, that Patrycja Pendrakowska and Paweł Behrendt made a contribution to the latest project of the Baltic Security Foundation, The Jamestown Foundation and the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation.

Instytut Boyma 21.12.2022

We are proud to annouce, that Patrycja Pendrakowska and Paweł Behrendt made a contribution to the latest project of the Baltic Security Foundation, The Jamestown Foundation and the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation – the book “Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region”.

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region serves as a comprehensive analysis of China’s presence in the Baltic Sea littoral countries and subsequently related developments in the domains of education, finance and infrastructure.

In this book, edited by Olevs Nikers and Otto Tabuns and published by the Jamestown Foundation, they prepared a chapter “Navigating Sino-Polish Relations “.

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