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What Drives Contemporary Eu-China Strategic Engagement?, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath
What Drives Contemporary Eu-China Strategic Engagement?, Natalia Wyzycka, Reza Hasmath
Reza Hasmath
This study examines the determinants of the European Union’s strategic engagement with China, with reference to three competing analytical approaches: institutional, social, and agency/stakeholder. The article examines the utility of each claim and outlines complementary variables amongst the three approaches, with the aid of recent evidence looking at the E.U.’s arms embargo on China, E.U.-China engagement in Africa, and the E.U.’s longstanding dispute on granting China market economy status. The findings can reduce the misunderstandings and uncertainties embedded in European Union-China interactions by demystifying the factors and variables that drive their relationship.