Europe-Asia Relations

Introduction to the Special Forum: Urgent Calls for a Common Agenda between Europe and Asia

The G7 summit in late May brought to the fore the question of cooperation across two continents under US leadership in the face of intensifying challenges from China in Asia and Russia in Europe with both of those great powers resisting the toughest sanctions on North Korea. During the late Cold War, in the face of a Soviet threat to both Europe and Asia, the G7 presented a common front. Toda..

Editorial Staff
June 30,2016

Is the EU on the Same Page as the United States on China?

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” Winston Churchill The European Union needs China, first and foremost, as an economic partner and, second, also for addressing international and regional crises. China uses its leverage and lobbies the European Union to stay out of the South China Sea dispute. As a result the European Union tr..

Theresa Fallon
16 + 1 , AIIB , Arbitration Tribunal , Checkbook diplomacy , EU-China Investment Agreement , Market Economy Status , MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH , South China Sea
June 30,2016

Leveraging America’s Asian Pivot to Reinforce the Transatlantic Alliance and Vice Versa

China’s rise is no longer a regional phenomenon but a global one, as the country “goes west” through its Belt & Road Initiative, waves of Chinese capital wash into Europe, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) operates from a military base in Djibouti, and China’s financial and diplomatic influence are felt everywhere from Brasilia to Bangui. Similarly, th..

Daniel Twining
Arc of Freedom and Prosperity , Free-riding , Japan-NATO cooperation , Japan-Russian relations , Principled neutrality , Self Defense Forces , US-Japan-Europe cooperation
June 30,2016

The NATO vs. East Asian Models of Extended Nuclear Deterrence? Seeking a Synergy beyond Dichotomy

Amid North Korea’s apparent progress in its nuclear weapons program and China’s military build-up, including the modernization of its nuclear arsenal, experts and officials in East Asia, particularly those in Japan and the Republic of Korea, are nowadays discussing more frequently the issues related to extended deterrence, not least its nuclear elements called extended nuclear det..

Michito Tsuruoka
DCA , DSC , EDD , NATO model , NPG , Nuclear allergy , Nuclear burden-sharing , Nuclear deterrence , Saber-rattling
June 30,2016

The EU and China: The Search for Simplicity

The relationship between the European Union and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a very significant one. Most people can agree at least on that. It is significant enough to merit almost as many strategic and policy dialogues and ministerial or sub-ministerial level working groups as China has with the United States (over 60).1 It is also significant because the two are the world&r..

Kerry Brown
High Level Economic and Trade Dialogue , Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong , Sustainability partner , Tienanmen Square arms embargo , UK-China relations
June 30,2016

Regional Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific: What Role for the EU?

Ever since the financial crisis crept from the United States to Europe in 2008, we have observed change in the international system, in general, and in Asia, in particular, which, in turn, has global repercussions with the re-emergence of China. Change follows change, adding to complexity: while China’s role as the economic power house was the prevailing narrative, the slowing down ..

Michael Reiterer
CBM , CICA , EAS , EU-China Connectivity , Global Strategy , Hegemon , Multipolarity , Revisionist foreign policy , Rule of law