Europe’s engagement with China: shifting Chinese views of the EU and the EU-China relationship

Chang, Vincent K.L.; Pieke, Frank N.

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“…Accordingly, many Chinese scholars advocate that the PRC should strengthen its public diplomacy mechanisms with regard to Europe to avoid the spread of misunderstandings and negative sentiments (Song, 2011;Chen, 2012Chen, , 2016b). Yet perceptions of the EU's role in world politics, especially in the security realm, are overshadowed by the EU's perceived lack of actorness, which is closely observed by Chinese policy experts who frequently criticize the lack of internal cohesion within the EU and the growing dissent among some of the member states (Chang and Pieke, 2018;Feng, 2018). For instance, Zeng (2017) argues that the EU plays only a marginalized role in China's new type of great power relations although it had once been considered the second most important pole in China's vision of a multipolar world.…”

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The EU-China Security Paradox

Gurol¹

2022

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She has also contributed several chapters to edited volumes published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar and NOMOS, and has published a number of policy papers for nonacademic research outlets.x AcknowledgementsMany people have supported me throughout the intellectual journey that led to this book. Not all their names can be mentioned here, but their contributions are sincerely appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. This book was born out of my PhD thesis at Freiburg University. I express my sincere gratitude to my first and second supervisors Diana Panke and Jürgen Rüland for their guidance and support. I also thank Sandra Destradi for her encouragement, care and constant motivation. I further want to thank Zheng Chunrong of Tongji University in Shanghai, who hosted me during my field trip to China and shared his extensive network with me. I am also grateful to Bristol University Press for showing interest in this book. In particular, I want to thank my editors Caroline Astley, Stephen Wenham and their team, whose feedback helped me to improve this book. Sincere gratitude also goes to the anonymous reviewers whose critical comments and suggestions did much to make this book better.I would not have been able to write this book without the support and help of many colleagues, friends and family members. First and foremost, I thank my wonderful colleagues at the University of Freiburg, the Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) and the Centre for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) for their critical comments, considerate advice and continuous guidance. Their encouraging support also helped me over the course of the whole research project, especially when planning and conducting my field research. I particularly thank them for equipping me with the necessary self-confidence and trust as I headed out into the field, as well as for providing last-minute comfort and motivation in the final stages of this book project. But most of all, I thank my friends, family and partner, who never stopped believing in me and the successful completion of this book. Thank you for being my greatest critics and my strongest supporters.

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Section: China's Perceptions Of the Eu As A Security Actormentioning

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The EU-China Security Paradox

Gurol¹

2022

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“…More specifically, it has seen an increase in import and export business with the USA (Handley & Limao, 2013;Melchior, 2018) and significant development of its free trade with other prominent trading participants around the world, including both European and other Asian nations (WTO, 2015). It is very important to China to have a significant and lasting partnership with the EU (Brugier, 2017;Chang & Pieke, 2017;Griese, 2006). However, even though China's trading has increased, it exercises caution when entering into more FTAs with other countries, especially with first-world economies such as EU member states.…”

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Who benefits of trade with China? Examining the effects of free trade agreements on trade flow with China using an adjusted gravity model

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China has numerous free trade agreements with various countries. In this research it will be examined who benefits from those free trade agreements. The sample includes 27 countries trading with China but 13 of these countries have signed a free trade agreement with China, or roughly half of all the available countries in our sample. The sample data are from 2001 -2017. An adjusted gravity model and a linear regression was carried out. While those countries that have made free trade agreement with China experienced modest or no increase in export to China, China itself experienced significant increase in export to its free trade partners after the agreement took place. In comparison, we carried out a linear regression of the total 27 countries where the trading countries experienced increase in export to China and China itself experienced increase in

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“…The other perspective that Chinese scholars take on the role of the EU in world politics emphasizes the EU's lacking actorness over possibilities for partnership or cooperation. Advocates of this strand of research criticize the lack of internal cohesion within the EU and the growing dissent between some of the member states (Feng 2018;Chang and Pieke 2018). For instance, Zeng (2017) argues that the EU plays only a marginalized role in China's "new type of great power relations" although it had once been considered the second most important pole in China's vision of a multi-polar world.…”

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Beyond dichotomy?

Gurol

2020

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J. Gurol the conceptual implications of the state of art and points towards possible future avenues for research. 2 Empirical shortcomings in EU-China research While a lot has been written about EU-China economic affairs, their relationship in the security realm is a controversial and highly debated, yet under-researched issue. Taken that few world regions are under such scrutiny in current global politics as the EU and China, this is surprising. Albeit in very different manners, the two actors form central pillars of international politics, not only because they account for one third of global trade, but also because they represent a decisive axis in the current world order, as rightly pointed to by Shambaugh (D. Shambaugh 2005). Despite diverging political principles of interstate and region-to-state relations, including state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and intervention policies, the EU and China have developed solid and recurrent interactions in a variety of policy fields. These range from people-to-people, social and cultural contacts, over economic negotiations to foreign and security policy. In doing so, they have substantially institutionalized their relations over time (Christiansen et al. 2019). Although the main drivers of EU-China relations remain of an economic kind, meaning primarily concerns with trade, investment and intellectual property issues (Kirchner et al. 2015; Huotari et al. 2017), the security dimension of their relationship has become more significant over time. It has by now developed into a vital pillar of EU-China relations. With respect to the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) of 2003, and the Strategic Agenda for Cooperation of 2013, China and the EU have expressed the will to coordinate their foreign and security policy matters. Moreover, under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) they agreed to align their security policies to create a "secure and stable environment from China to Europe, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria" (Schweisgut 2015). The expansion of EU-China security relations over time and concerning the array of security issues is an interesting and puzzling phenomenon. Although economic matters still dominate the EU-China agenda, the security domain is all but tenuous (Kirchner et al. 2015), not only because of the deepening economy-security nexus but also because of the rise of transnational security challenges like climate and energy security, maritime security or food security that equally affect the EU and China. Yet, for decades, EU-China security cooperation has been hindered by contradicting principles of foreign and security policymaking (D. L. Shambaugh et al. 2008). Although these principles are still adhered today and lead to increasing political frictions, the intensity and scope of EU-China security cooperation have widened over time. Within an overall relationship dominated by increasing mistrust and political tensions, this is interesting to look at. Despite this fact, the security domain of EU-China relations has ...

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Europe’s engagement with China: shifting Chinese views of the EU and the EU-China relationship

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

The EU-China Security Paradox

The EU-China Security Paradox

Who benefits of trade with China? Examining the effects of free trade agreements on trade flow with China using an adjusted gravity model

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