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CGTN Dialogue – Joel Ruet discusses the Belt & Road Initiative MoU between Italy and China

Posted on 2 April 20191 June 2023 by the_bridge_tank

Xi Jinping’s state visits to Italy and France from March 21-26, 2019 was a milestone in the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) westward expansion. One of the key elements of this visit was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Italian government, according to which Italy would actively take part in the Belt and Road Initiative. This was particularly significant as Italy was then the first Western European country and G7 power to show such a strong interest for the BRI.

Joël Ruet took part in CGTN’s Dialogue program to comment this signing, along with Michele Geraci, the Italian Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development, responsible for international trade and foreign direct investments. In a context of a very commented signing by the Italian authorities and a just as commented lack of signing by the French authorities, Joël Ruet highlighted that France’s investments and trade with China remained much higher than Italy’s. He added that, in the European view, the priority was not to sign a Belt and Road agreement, but to have concrete economic commitments.

During Xi Jinping’s state visit to France, the host country also innovated institutionally by inviting German chancellor Angela Merkel as well as Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, to meet with the Chinese and French heads of state. This highlighted the European Union’s shared point of view regarding diplomacy with China, especially in the context of a unilateral signing by Italy.

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Joël Ruet on CGTN World Insight – France’s grand debate to appease the ‘yellow vests’?

Posted on 15 January 201916 May 2022 by the_bridge_tank

The Bridge Tank’s president Joël Ruet analyses the current ‘yellow vests’ movement in France on French-Chinese television channel CGTN’s show, World Insight, explaining that contestation is also part of democracy’s vitality.

Watch the debate here.

Joël Ruet speaks as guest on CGTN’s ‘Dialogue’ on the 2018 FOCAC China-Africa Summit

Posted on 11 September 201816 May 2022 by the_bridge_tank

As the 2018 edition of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation FOCAC begins, Joël Ruet joins the roundtable on CGTN’s ‘Dialogue’ to discuss the implications of Chinese investment in Africa.

Watch his intervention here.

Joël Ruet analyses the current trade war between the US and China on France24

Posted on 24 August 201816 May 2022 by the_bridge_tank

Joël Ruet analyses the current trade war between the US and China on France24. Seasoned Chinese negotiators threaten back the US on trade: from trade battles to a trade war, or showing muscles before saving the supply chains?

Watch his intervention here.

Tribune: To finance the COP21 promise, Europe must establish a carbon tax on imports

Posted on 6 August 201815 December 2021 by the_bridge_tank

In the wake of the COP21, August 5, 2018, The Bridge Tank: Philippe Coste, Hakima El Haite, our board members and Joël Ruet, our President, wrote an opinion piece with climate policy specialist Axel Michaelowa on the need to establish a carbon tax on imports.

Read the article (in French) here

Our Board member Suresh Prabhu gives a talk at the “Invest India” conference at the Davos Forum

Posted on 30 January 201823 July 2021 by the_bridge_tank

The 2018 edition of the Davos Forum took place between the 23rd and the 26th of January. Suresh Prabhu, Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, intervened during the “Invest India” conference on the 23rd of January, along with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his State Secretary for Foreign Trade.

The Minister and Joël Ruet shared their points of view on India’s place in globalisation and global economic matters. Suresh Prabhu is also a member of the Bridge Tank’s board.

France Might Miss The Great African Transformation

Posted on 15 September 20176 August 2020 by the_bridge_tank

No French diplomat was present at the launching of the African Union “2016 Transition Report” in New York on September 21st. Is it because it is an internal matter of the African Union, or is it symptomatic of a French disregard for the transformation of the continent ? In either case, it appears that it is one of the many signs that France stands idle by as Africa undergoes many changes. Read Joel Ruet’s analysis on this matter in this OpEd published in Jeune Afrique

When a South African court attacks the remaining pillar of globalization

Posted on 19 July 20176 August 2020 by the_bridge_tank

The G20 leaders met on the 7th and 8th July in the harbour city of Hamburg, a Symbol of trade where they sought new keys to globalization through investment.

Thousands of kilometers to the south, would the setting seizure of an innocuous African boat of fertilizers anchored in an African harbour become a symbol of the shadowed side of the “new globalization” ? Resistant to trade; Politizing investment; Instrumentalising the local courts, discreetly unraveling the advances of multi-lateral governance?

The reopening of the Bonn climate negotiations: what are the challenges for COP 23?

Posted on 23 May 20172 June 2020 by the_bridge_tank

Joël Ruet was interviewed by the Moroccan National Radio and Television Company (SNRT) on the reopening of negotiations in Bonn. Continue reading “The reopening of the Bonn climate negotiations: what are the challenges for COP 23?”

The case for sovereign climate bonds How to combat climate change with fiscal policy?

Posted on 15 February 20176 August 2020 by the_bridge_tank

“Investment in a low-carbon future is a key priority for many governments across the developed and developing world, and also for central banks looking to diversify their investment portfolios. One proposal for turning this priority into action is through the creation of climate policy performance bonds – calling them ‘sovereign climate bonds’.”

By Abdeljellil Bouzidi, Board Member of The Bridge Tank.