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Barroso, Graziela Maciel

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“…These developments not only strengthen the role of the European Union as a global player, but also make it a more important partner for China across the board. 74 The CFSP's 'High Representative', Javier Solana, points to: a paradox: of all the prerogatives of states, security and defence policy is probably the one which least lends itself to a collective European approach; however after the single currency, it is in this dimension that the Union has made the most rapid and spectacular progress over the last fi ve years' [from 1999 to 2004]. 75 His enthusiasm remains keen, telling the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) in 2006 that 'the story of ESDP is very exciting.…”

Section: Geopolitical Visions and Grand Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

China and the EU: A Strategic Axis for the Twenty-First Century?

Scott

2007

International Relations

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The EU–China relationship is now emerging as a significant feature of the international system. The EU's institutional consolidation, development of supranational trade power and the foreign policy openings of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has entwined with the PRC's ongoing sense of geopolitical manoeuvrings between the superpowers. With its talk of ‘multipolarity’, grand strategy has converged, though the PRC's stress on ‘multipolarity’ can perhaps be distinguished from the EU's stress on ‘multilateralism’. Nevertheless, human rights issues apart, the EU–China relationship has matured in the last two decades to involve significant economic matters and visions of a wider ‘strategic partnership’, bringing with it a challenge to American unipolar unilateralism.

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Section: Geopolitical Visions and Grand Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%