EU, China: Honeymoon is over

Posted by Matt in May 29th, 2008

So far so good, but it still takes two to tango and the EU is not making the right moves, Bingran Dai of the Centre for European Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai tells ISN Security Watch.

“The problem is that the atmosphere has changed drastically since 2006 and the Chinese public and the government feel quite frustrated about the changes in Europe, of its attitude towards China,” he says, referring to the EU’s October 2006 China trade and policy papers.

Those papers had presented Beijing with a long list of requested changes in areas ranging from human rights, freedom of speech to intellectual property rights and economic and financial deregulation. At the time, Chinese officials and scholars were offended by that list and wondered openly if this was how the EU treated its strategic partners.

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