China’s Foreign Policy and External Relations
This study provides an overview of China’s current approach to foreign policy and external relations. It focuses more particularly on the role and actions of China in global governance, its territorial claims and relations with countries in Asia, and its emergence as an important actor in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood. It assesses the implications for the EU and makes recommendations on how the EU should deepen its strategic partnership with China. The study argues that China has not made a unilateral and exclusive turn towards assertiveness in its foreign policy. China’s foreign policy assertiveness represents a policy choice that should be understood in the broader context of its external relations, which is one of uncertainty. Both the impact of China’s emergence in international affairs and the use China intends to make of its power and influence remain uncertain. This uncertainty is explained by the interdependence between a number of international and domestic factors as well as by the absence of a grand strategy. The uncertainty in China’s foreign policy opens avenues for the EU to influence China and further deepen the scope of the EU-China Strategic Partnership.
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Auteur externe
Matthieu BURNAY, Kolja RAUBE and Jan WOUTERS
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Domaine politique
Mot-clé
- accord de coopération (UE)
- Afrique
- Asie - Océanie
- cadre politique
- Chine
- Conseil de sécurité ONU
- construction européenne
- contentieux territorial
- Corée du Nord
- développement durable
- Europe
- FINANCES
- Fonds monétaire international
- GÉOGRAPHIE
- géographie politique
- géographie économique
- Inde
- investissement et financement
- investissement à l'étranger
- Iran
- Japon
- Libye
- Nations unies
- non-prolifération des armements
- Organisation mondiale du commerce
- ORGANISATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- organisations mondiales
- Pakistan
- pays de l'ANASE
- politique extérieure
- politique internationale
- politique économique
- relation économique
- RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- Russie
- sanction internationale
- Syrie
- sécurité internationale
- sécurité régionale
- terrorisme
- Ukraine
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- VIE POLITIQUE
- vie politique et sécurité publique
- ÉCONOMIE
- État de droit