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Written by Marcin Grajewski,
China’s increasingly autocratic domestic stance and its assertive foreign policy pose a dilemma for European Union policy-makers as to whether to treat the Asian powerhouse as a partner or a rival, or to take a position somewhere in between. Formally, the EU and China are strategic partners since 2003 – a partnership that was broadened five years ago by the EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation. No EU country wants to be openly confrontational towards China, contrary to the approach of the current United States administration. However, several European governments are wary of Beijing’s economic expansionism and its efforts to take the global lead in digital technologies. Controversy over China’s telecoms giant Huawei has exacerbated those concerns.
This note offers links to recent commentaries, studies and reports from major international think tanks on China, its ties with the EU and related issues. More studies on the topics can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are thinking’ published in September 2018.
EU-China
China’s new policy on the European Union: A toughening
line on political issues
Finnish Institute of International Affairs,
January 2019
Assessing China’s influence in Europe through investments
Leiden Asia Centre, Clingendael, January
2019
Is
Europe tough enough on China?
Carnegie Europe, January 2019
Political values in Europe-China relations
European Think-Tank
Network on China, December 2018
The EU and China: Modest signs of convergence?
Egmont, December
2018
A United Nations with Chinese characteristics?
Cligendael,
December 2018
How Europe will try to dodge the US–China standoff in
2019
Chatham House, December
2018
China’s ambitions in Eastern Europe and the South
Caucasus
Institut français des relations internationales, December 2018
Chinese views of European defensce integration
Mercator
Institute for China Studies, December 2018
The
21st century maritime silk road: Security implications and ways forward for the
European Union
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, November 2018
Guns, engines and turbines: The EU’s hard power in Asia
European Union
Institute for Security Studies, November 2018
China and Europe: Buying hearts and minds?
Centre for European Reform, November 2018
The China-EU relationship: Trade but verify
Barcelona
Institute for International Affairs, October 2018
Europe and changing Asian geopolitics
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, October 2018
How could Europe benefit from the US-China trade war?
Bruegel, October
2018
The ‘16+1’ platform. China’s opportunities for Central
and Eastern Europe
Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, October 2018
Europe’s emerging approach to China’s Belt and Road
Initiative
Carnegie Europe,
October 2018
China and the EU: The contradictions of exercising joint
trade leadership
Centre for
European Policy Studies, September 2018
Security and foreign policy
How US monetary policy tamed Chinese foreign policy
Chatham House, January 2019
Lose-lose scenario for Europe from ongoing China-US
negotiations
Bruegel, January 2019
Rare earths and China: A review of changing criticality
in the new economy
Institut français des relations internationales, January 2019
China: Between key role and marginalisation
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, December 2018
The Sino-Russian and US-Russian relationships: Current
developments and future trends
Finnish Institute
of International Affairs, December 2018
Along the road: China in the Arctic
European Union
Institute for Security Studies, December 2018
Experiences with Chinese investment in the Western
Balkans and the post-Soviet space: Lessons for Central Europe?
Centre for
European Neighbourhood Studies, December 2018
Russia-China: Security ties them together?
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, December 2018
China’s ambitions to become a global security actor
Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, December 2018
Les multiples atouts de la stratégie sécuritaire de la
Chine en Afrique
Groupe de Recherche et d’Information sur la Paix et la Sécurité, December
2018
China expands its peace and security footprint in Africa
International Crisis Group, October 2018
China expands its global governance ambitions in the Arctic
Chatham House, October 2018
Huawei
5G, Huawei und die Sicherheit unserer Kommunikationsnetze
Stiftung Wissenschaft
und Politik, February 2019
China testing Trump in Canada
Center for Strategic and International
Studies, February 2019
Huawei, the U.S., and its anxious allies
Council on Foreign Relations, January 2019
Huawei and Europe’s 5G conundrum
Carnegie Europe,
December 2018
Huawei and the new Thirty Years War
Center for
Security Studies, December 2018
Economy and trade
Chinese growth: A balancing act
Bruegel, January 2019
The Belt and Road turns five
Bruegel, January 2019
China’s vision of an ecological civilisation: A struggle
for environmental leadership in the era of climate change
Istituto Affari Internazionali, January 20198
From Paris to Beijing: Implementing the Paris Agreement
in the People’s Republic of China
Atlantic Council, January 2019
Xi Jinping’s turn away from the market puts Chinese
growth at risk
Peterson Institute for International
Economics, January 2019
Will China’s currency hit a wall?
Council on
Foreign Relations, January 2019
Are China’s trade practices really unfair?
Centre for
European Policy Studies, December 2018
Emerging technology dominance: What China’s pursuit of
advanced dual-use technologies means for the future of Europe’s economy and
defence innovation
International
Institute for Strategic Studies, Mercator Institute for China Studies, December
2018
China’s view of the trade war has changed, and so has its
strategy
Bruegel, December
2018
Does China force foreign firms to surrender their sensitive
technology?
Peterson
Institute for International Economics, December 2018
Trump’s trade war with China makes Russia great again
Council on
Foreign Relations, December 2018
China’s big push for solar energy
Institute for
Defence Studies and Analyses, December 2018
The myth of China’s forced technology transfer
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2018
L’intelligence artificielle en Chine: un état des lieux
Fondation pour l’innovation politique, November 2018
Disciplining China’s trade practices at the WTO: How WTO
complaints can help make China more market-oriented
Cato Institute,
November 2018
China’s risky drive into new-energy vehicles
Center for
Strategic and International Studies, November 2018
The China dream goes digital: Technology in the age of Xi
European Council
on Foreign Relations, October 2018
Ten years after the crisis: The West’s failure pushing
China towards state capitalism
Bruegel, October
2018
The Belt and Road Initiative: China’s new geopolitical
strategy?
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, October 2018
With growth sagging, China shifts back to socialism
Council on
Foreign Relations, October 2018
The belt and road initiative looks East
The Hague Centre
for Strategic Studies, October 2018
China and the United States: Trade conflict and systemic competition Peterson Institute for International Economics, October 2019
Read this briefing on ‘China‘ on the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
Alexander Graef is a researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), Germany. He works on conventional arms control issues, Russian foreign and defense policy, and international relations. From January 2017 to June 2018, Graef was a Doc.Mobility fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He holds a PhD in International Affairs and Political Economy from the University of St. Gallen. His doctoral thesis analyzed the community of foreign policy experts and think tanks in Russia. His work has appeared in Berlin Policy Journal, Political Studies Review, Russian Analytical Digest, Zeitschrift fur Au?en- und Sicherheitspolitik (Journal for Foreign and Security Policy), and Osteuropa. He was responsible for Part 1 of this report.