Relations Between the European Communities and Japan

The EU/China relationship: not seeing eye to eye?

“…One could of course counter by claiming that China may not be aware of the fact that the Commission has the sole responsibility for the CCP, in which case we would be going back decades, evoking a sense of déjà vu, to when Japan had to be subjected by France to the 'Poitiers incident' before it got the message that it had to deal with the Commission, not France, in the face of French intransigence of world trade rules, but one should be very surprised to learn that China is that ignorant of how the EU operates; on this, see, inter alia,Hosoya (1979),Anouil (1985), and El-Agraa(1988, 1998).…”