The Inconsistency of Czech Presidential Diplomacy and the Growth of Czech Foreign Trade with China

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14560/23:00131536

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v19i1.1166" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v19i1.1166</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.30950/jcer.v19i1.1166" target="_blank" >10.30950/jcer.v19i1.1166</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Inconsistency of Czech Presidential Diplomacy and the Growth of Czech Foreign Trade with China

Original language description

This paper analyzes the relation between the diplomatic activity of Czech presidents and the economic trend of bilateral trade between the Czech Republic and China during 1993-2019. The investigation is based on a statistical survey of diplomatic steps and economic figures. Although the policy of the first Czech President Václav Havel (1993-2003) was cautious towards China, Czech-Chinese bilateral trade exchange was nevertheless consistent and relatively balanced. In the period of President Václav Klaus (2003-2013), after the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU, the trend of trade balance continued to the detriment of Czech exports despite the trade volume growth. However, the decline of exports to China was similarly observed in other Central European countries. That was also a period when Czech presidential diplomatic acts towards China became more numerous. In the period of President Miloš Zeman (2013-until now), the diplomatic activity of the Czech President increased significantly according to the number of official visits and signed documents. Simultaneously, there has been a significant decline in Czech exports and Chinese reinvested profits in the Czech Republic. The authors substantiate the findings by quantitative analysis and describe the development of Czech presidential diplomacy from the perspective of Czech-Chinese economic relations during 1993-2019 as inconsistent.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary European Research

ISSN

1815-347X

e-ISSN

1815-347X

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

42-61

UT code for WoS article

001135011300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85150927426