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The European Commission must rebalance the EU's economic relations with China The gloves are off. Chinese officials are crying fool about what they consider to be the...

The EU-China summit airbrushed issues that need to be addressed to maintain a stable relationship The EU-China summit on 20 September was a swansong for China's prime...

The head of the EU's bail-out fund is trying to convince Beijing to support the eurozone rescue package. Klaus Regling, the head of the eurozone's rescue fund, is in China in...

Will Europe sell off its chances of a serious political relationship with China? The summer sales are on in Europe and buyers are desperately needed. Portugal is crying out...

Chris Patten understates the nature of US engagement on the issue of Tibet, an engagement that the EU could learn from Chris Patten is right that China's rise should be good...

Might China and Europe co-operate on security in Africa? China and its African partners will gather in Egypt this weekend to discuss the future of their co-operation. One of...

Why Europe should be prepared to see an even more assertive China. When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, Mao Zedong claimed: “We can be proud of what...

This week's summits with China and Russia will demonstrate to EU leaders how healthy the centralised nation state still is. The demise of the centralised nation state – in...

The Chinese premier's tour of Europe marks an upgrading of relations with the European Commission and even hints at early hope for its most troubled relationship, with...

After the unabated stream of news reports on ambitious Chinese ventures in Africa, the EU has been fretting about how it should react. Brussels felt irked when it found its...

Since China joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in December 2001 the European Union has been following a softly- softly approach to trade relations with this...

THE Far East Economic Review recently carried the headline ‘China's love affair with Europe'. But there appear to be both love and pragmatism in China's affair with...

Last weekend's Asia-Europe meeting in Beijing was the latest boost to EU-China relations. Siro Polo Padolecchia, a former European Commission director-general, says there is...

IF CHINA joins the World Trade Organisation this year, it will be largely as a result of EU support. Although officials claim the Union is showing a new caution in its...

FOR all the Euro-American bickering over rogue states, the world's two largest trade blocs are surprisingly united on how to deal with the biggest one of all. Their flaming...

NOT to be outdone by US President Bill Clinton's imminent encounter with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, the European Union is sneaking into the country two weeks earlier to...

EUROPEAN trade officials will meet their Chinese counterparts next week to discuss conditions for the Communist giant's entry to the World Trade Organisation, possibly as...

PLANS for a transatlantic attack on Beijing's human rights record have all but collapsed following Paris' refusal to support an EU resolution at the United Nation Commission...

WHEN ten Asian presidents and prime ministers met 15 EU leaders for a summit in Bangkok six months ago, Europeans made romantic allusions to Marco Polo and waxed poetical...

IF the EU needs more lessons in how difficult it is to conduct a foreign policy which coherently blends an uncompromising human rights policy with an advantageous economic...