Jun 30,2016 Special Forum 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 […] Editorial Staff 16 + 1 , Chinese FDI , EAS , Extended deterrence , Great-power revanchism , Institution-building
Jun 30,2016 Special Forum 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 […] Theresa Fallon 16 + 1 , AIIB , Arbitration Tribunal , Checkbook diplomacy , EU-China Investment Agreement , Market Economy Status , MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH , South China Sea