Tim Rühlig

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I am the Senior Analyst for Asia/Global China at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS). My research focuses on China's foreign, economic and technology policy, EU-China relations, economic security, German-China policy, and Hong Kong affairs. I am also working on the politicization of technical standard-setting and China's role as a security actor in the Pacific and beyond.

Before joining the EUISS, I worked at the European Commission for DG I.D.E.A., the in-house advisor hub of President Ursula von der Leyen, with a focus on China's technology policy. Previously, I was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).

I am the founder of the Digital Power China (DPC) research consortium that brings together European engineers, computer scientists as well as China scholars and economists. I am also chairing the Working Group on "high technology and innovation" of the China in Europe Research Network's (CHERN), an EU Cost Action. And I am a participant of the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), which I coordinated in 2018.

Among my publications is the monograph "China's Foreign Policy Contradictions" which appeared in 2022 with Oxford University Press.

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