Alicia García Herrero is the Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at French investment bank Natixis, based in Hong Kong, and she is an independent Board Member of AGEAS insurance group. García Herrero also serves as a Senior Fellow at the European think-tank BRUEGEL, a non-resident Senior Follow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) of the National University Singapore (NUS), and an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is also an advisor to the Spanish government on economic affairs, a Member of the Board of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), a member of the Advisory Board of the Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), and an advisor to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s research arm (HKIMR).

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What Does It Really Mean for Europe to ‘De-Risk’ Its Relationship with China?

Thomas König, Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova & more from Mercator Institute for China Studies
At the core of many EU Commission and member states’ recent discussions of China is the concept of “de-risking.” Distinct from “decoupling,” the concept focuses on mitigating risks and limiting strategic dependencies in Europe’s relationship with...