China-Eu : a Common Future.

Negotiations for a new EU-China Partnership & Cooperation Agreement have just got underway and are likely to take two to three years. This is the first book to explore the wide range of issues affecting the China-EU relationship, including the US factor, environmental issues, WTO, governance, tr...

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Main Author: Crossick, Stanley
Other Authors: Reuter, Etienne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Introduction; Foreword; A New Agenda; I STRATEGIC ISSUES; 1 Key Elements of a Strategic Partnership; Introduction; Defining Strategic Partnership; Chinese Views; EU Views; Towards Mutual Understanding; The EU Member States and Chinese Regionalism; International Cooperation; Political Values; Social and Economic Issues; Conclusion and Recommendations; 2 Environment; State of China's Environment; EU-China Exchange on the Environment; Priorities for EU-China Relations on the Environment; Water crisis in China; Climate change: An issue linking Europe and China.
  • Supply chains and consumption -Timber and foodConclusion: Global Leadership for Sustainability; 3 Energy; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Rationale for EU-China Cooperation on Energy Issues; Obstacles to Overcome; How to Implement a Strategy of Energy Cooperation; 4 Security Issues; EU-China: Closer Partners, Growing Responsibilities; Global governance; Energy security; East Asia; China's defense policy; Transatlantic Implications; Assessment; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Main Players on International Stage with Increasing Responsibility.
  • Grounds for Cooperation between China and EU on International Security MattersConvergent points in their security strategy; Similarity in the examination of the security situation; Common option for multilateralism; Focus on political solution of international conflicts; Development as essential element for security; Divergent points on the security problem; Different attitude regarding internal affairs of other countries; The Taiwan issue; Proposals for More Effective Security Cooperation between China and EU; Optimize the utility of canals of dialogue; Themes for possible cooperation.
  • 5 The Reform of the UNUN Security Council (UNSC) as Key Security Governance Actor; Making the Security Council More Representative: The Membership Issue; Regulating the Use of Force; The Responsibility to Protect; Enhancing Security Council's Peacekeeping and Peace Building Capacity; II GEOPOLITICS; 6 The US Factor; The Primacy of the Transatlantic Relationship; European Alignment with the United States in East Asia
  • Four Scenarios; China, the Transatlantic Alliance and theWorld Order; Conclusion; 7 Taiwan; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Taiwan Revisionist Policy; External Actors; Solution to the Crisis.
  • EU PERSPECTIVE8 China and Its Neighbors; The EU and ASEAN; Managing a Problematic Heritage; Managing a Problematic Heritage; Finding a Balance between Political, Economic and Cultural Relations; Balancing Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Interregionalism; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Introduction; Multilateral Cooperation in China's Neighborhood; Does the Regional Multilateralism Aim at Building a "Fortress East Asia"?; Implications for Other Parts of theWorld; 9 Japan; EU PERSPECTIVE; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Chinese PremierWen's Visit to Japan: New Thinking Launched?