Victoria Herczegh

Viktória Herczegh is an analyst at Geopolitical Futures. She is also a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations Doctoral School of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her PhD research topic is "Double Standards projected by Great Powers". Ms. Herczegh holds a bachelor's degree of Chinese Language and Culture and a master's degree of East Asian Studies. She also spent one semester at Shanghai International Studies University studying Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Herczegh is a native Hungarian fluent in English, Spanish, French and Mandarin.

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The Japan-China Dispute, Explained

Over the past month, the diplomatic conflict that began as a war of words between China and Japan has gradually intensified, leading to maritime confrontations around a disputed island chain and culminating with Chinese fighter jets aiming fire-control radar at Japanese F-15s near Okinawa. The dispute started when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said any […]

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Last week, the PLA Daily, the official newspaper of China’s armed forces, published a lengthy and unusually candid article assessing the People’s Liberation Army’s shortcomings. State military commentary typically...

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The Problem With China’s Renewed Push for Unity

The Chinese government recently introduced a new set of regulations, set to take effect in 2026, to manage Chinese citizens employed by foreign diplomatic and consular missions in China....

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