Europe's Relations with China: Lost in Flight?

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EuropEs rElations with China:

lost in Flight?

Franois GodementBosch Public Policy Fellow, Transatlantic Academy


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Europes Relations with China: Lost in Flight? 1

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diplomats are

thought to be

reactive and

passive more than

proactive and

ready to make

propositions, with

Europe it is largely

China that defines

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its own priorities

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Another large

member state has

asserted its own

game plan with

China, after the

past examples of

France and the

United Kingdom.

Angela Merkels

Germany has

inaugurated,

without fanfare,

a dual policy.


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periphery a

geographical

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as Iceland, but

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While cooperation

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more often these

days obtained)

on issues close

to Europe, there

is no question

that the level

of interest and

activism on the

part of Europe

regarding Asian

issues, closer to

China, has abated.


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After the irritants

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2010 and since

president Hus

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see approaches

seem to dominate

U.S. policy

towards China.


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