Embracing the dragon: The EU's partnership with China
Written by Mark Leonard, Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 02 May 2005
The EU is now China's biggest trading partner. European companies are ploughing billions of euro into the booming Chinese market. The EU offers Beijing help in areas such as fighting pollution and writing better laws. Both China and the EU back a strong United Nations and they are wary of US hegemony. But there are also profound differences, which - unless addressed - could hold back plans to build a 'strategic partnership'.
