Held by TVP World, an English-language news channel run by Polish public television broadcaster TVP, the conference earlier this month included a panel discussion focusing on China.
Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a video address to the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP-15, in which he promoted China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a means to "elevate global bio-diversity governance to a new height."
Proposed by the Chinese president in 2013, the BRI comprises the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. It aims to build trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the ancient Silk Road routes.
Poland joined the initiative in 2015.
"A product just being from China does not necessarily mean that there is any reason for concern or that it is bad," Matt Schrader, advisor on Chinese affairs at the International Republican Institute in Washington, told Radio Poland's Danuta Isler.
Schrader, who was a guest speaker at the Regional Threats, Global Shifts conference, added: "If I am buying a bike from China, or anything else that's just like a normal product, that shouldn't immediately be grounds for saying: 'Oh, we're getting it from China, that's bad.' We're more concerned about strategic goods and the political impact of doing a lot of business with China."
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