Anastas Vangeli is doctoral researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences and a PhD fellow of the ZEIT-Stiftung. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Turin World Affairs Institute (T.wai) and a member of the UACES Collaborative Network on EU-China Relations. Mr. Vangeli works on China’s Belt&Road Initiative, as well as on the trajectories of change in China and post-socialist Europe, and the relations between the two.