Harry Seavey is a master’s student and Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Previously, he served as a trainee at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a degree in global affairs.
As the first leg of an envisioned Chinese-built network connecting Kunming, Yangon, Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, and Singapore, the China-Laos rail moves a Chinese-led Southeast Asian order one step closer to reality.
It's been a tumultuous year for the EU-China relationship. The European Parliament and European Commission are in agreement about the challenges of working with China, and the necessity of a new approach, but what form that will take remains uncertain.