Konstantinos Tsimonis

Dr Konstantinos Tsimonis

2024-25

The Chinese Communist Party Goes Global: Tracing CCP Organizations and Networks in Europe

This project focuses on an under-researched aspect of China’s rise: the globalisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) organizations and networks in Europe. Rather than the exportation of a ‘Chinese model of governance’ or of a ‘new normative order’, the tangible and observable aspect of the political influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) abroad involves the more subtle expansion of specific institutions and networks. This expansion relies on the party’s ‘magic weapons’, to paraphrase Mao Zedong: ‘party-building’, namely the creation of party cells abroad, and its ‘united front’ tactics, aiming at co-opting potential opponents to make them valuable intermediaries.

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Areas of interest

China Corruption Policymaking Governance Youth Feminism Social Policy

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Biography

Konstantinos Tsimonis is a senior lecturer in Chinese Society. He is a member of the editorial board of the People's Map of Global China, and of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies.

Konstantinos' research focuses on how institutional actors in China's authoritarian system partially adapt to new roles in the context of marketisation and globalisation, and how these adaptations influence policy-making, state-society relations, and governance both within China and internationally.

In addition to his academic research, Konstantinos has worked with civil society organisations and the private sector on consultancy projects related to Chinese politics, labour rights, and corruption, and he regularly comments on Chinese affairs in international media.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25