On 13–14 March 2026, Miklós Sebők presented at the conference “Second Cold War Cities: Geopolitics and Urbanization in the 21st Century,” held at the University of Manchester. Sebők’s presentation was titled Illiberal Gateway Cities as Battlegrounds for Global Power Network Centrality: The Case of Chinese Investments in Hungarian Municipalities. Dr. Sebők also discussed multiple papers during the conference.