#3 JACOB GUNTER: Is Belt and Road a Game Changer for European Companies? (Part 1)

EU-China Podcast

In this two-part episode, we dive deep into the topic of the EU’s engagement with China’s Belt and Road Initiative - are the European companies involved in BRI? Does the EU’s Connectivity Strategy support European businesses? What about China promoting its standards through BRI projects?

We tackle this questions with Jacob Gunter the Policy and Communications Manager at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and lead pen of their recent report on the involvement of European companies in the Belt and Road Initiative - "The Road Less Travelled". He has spent over eight years in China living as a student and professional in Yuyao in Zhejiang province, in Nanjing where he studied at the prestigious Hopkins–Nanjing Center, and currently in Beijing. As he told me himself, he is globalization in practice - an American, working in China for the European Union.