EU-China Political & Economic Relations

The EU-China Strategic Partnership, which is based on the 1985 EU China trade and cooperation agreement, has grown to include foreign affairs, security matters and international challenges such as climate change and global economy governance. The EU and China are world players. The EU is China?s biggest trading partner, while China is the EU's largest source of imports and 2nd largest two-way trading partner. The trade and investment relationship is a major source of wealth, jobs, development and innovation for both sides. This module will build a theoretical foundation of EU-China relations, and allow students to review the bilateral relations from historical and contemporary perspectives as well as different bilateral matters (human rights, arms embargo, and people to people exchange, currency issues, bilateral foreign direct investment, central banks cooperation, etc.). Another feature of this course is to enable students to learn the practical aspects of EU-China trade relations such as anti-dumping issues. Students will also participate in a Model Asia-Europe Meeting to understand better the wider inter-regional relations.