Tim Rühlig

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Tim Rühlig is a research fellow at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in Stockholm, where he works on EU-China relations, as well as Chinese Foreign Policy. His current projects focus on China’s foreign economic policy, China’s growing footprint in technical standardization, the emerging US-China technology rivalry and its implications for Europe as well as the politics of Hong Kong. Rühlig holds a PhD from the Frankfurt University with a thesis on sovereign state control in China’s foreign policy. In 2018, he was the coordinator of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) and lead editor of the network’s annual report assessing the role of political values in Europe-China relations. He has been a visiting research fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, Stockholm University and the European Institute for Asian Studies in Brussels. Since 2019, he is member of the Management Committee and the Core Group of the EU-funded COST Action “Europe in China Research Network” (CHERN). He was a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “The formation of normative orders” in Frankfurt and has worked on political implications of social media discourses in China.