A new era in EU-China relations: more wide-ranging strategic cooperation?
China is an important strategic partner for the EU, despite fundamental divergences in some areas, mostly related to state intervention and fundamental human rights. The partnership offers mutually beneficial cooperation and dialogue in areas ranging from investment and transport to human rights and cybersecurity. China is navigating in new directions, guided by Xi Jinping's 'Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era’. Despite President Xi’s repeated avowals that 'the market will have a decisive role', public ownership remains the mainstay of the Chinese economy, whereas profound reforms would be needed to tackle the root causes of overcapacity in various industrial sectors. Xi's ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, now also included in the Constitution, is the flagship international connectivity and infrastructure programme dominated by Chinese state-owned companies. Overall, China’s crucial, but complex transition towards more sustainable growth would eventually benefit both, China and the world as a whole. Global economic interdependence, however, makes certain spill-over effects of China’s rebalancing unavoidable. China plays a pivotal role in global governance and the rules-based international order, and this comes with responsibilities. Beijing has begun to shift away from the narrow pursuit of national aims towards a more assertive foreign and security policy, and increased financial, economic and security cooperation with a global outreach. China is also facing domestic concerns, such as lifting millions of people out of poverty and reducing ever-growing income inequalities, deterioration in the situation of human rights and freedoms as well as endemic corruption.
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- AMBIENTE
- Asia-Oceania
- Cina
- commercio internazionale
- cooperazione economica
- costruzione europea
- diritti e libertà
- diritti umani
- DIRITTO
- ECONOMIA
- FINANZE
- GEOGRAFIA
- geografia economica
- geopolitica
- investimenti e finanziamenti
- investimento all'estero
- investimento estero
- politica ambientale
- politica commerciale
- politica commerciale
- politica dell'ambiente
- politica di cooperazione
- politica estera
- relazioni dell'Unione europea
- RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI
- SCAMBI ECONOMICI E COMMERCIALI
- scambi extra UE
- scambio per paese
- SCIENZE
- scienze umane
- sicurezza internazionale
- situazione economica
- situazione economica
- situazione politica
- UNIONE EUROPEA
- VITA POLITICA
- vita politica e sicurezza pubblica