China-EU : a common future / / edited by Stanley Crossick, Etienne Reuter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816631303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Jersey, : World Scientific, c2007
• ISBN: 1-281-91863-6; 9786611918637; 981-270-887-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CrossickStanley; ReuterEtienne
• Disciplina: 337.5104
• Soggetti: China Relations Europe; Europe Relations China
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors' Introduction; Foreword; A New Agenda; I STRATEGIC ISSUES; 1 Key Elements of a Strategic Partnership; Introduction; Defining Strategic Partnership; Chinese Views; EU Views; Towards Mutual Understanding; The EU Member States and Chinese Regionalism; International Cooperation; Political Values; Social and Economic Issues; Conclusion and Recommendations; 2 Environment; State of China's Environment; EU-China Exchange on the Environment; Priorities for EU-China Relations on the Environment; Water crisis in China; Climate change: An issue linking Europe and China; Supply chains and consumption -Timber and foodConclusion: Global Leadership for Sustainability; 3 Energy; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Rationale for EU-China Cooperation on Energy Issues; Obstacles to Overcome; How to Implement a Strategy of Energy Cooperation; 4 Security Issues; EU-China: Closer Partners, Growing Responsibilities; Global governance; Energy security; East Asia; China's defense policy; Transatlantic Implications; Assessment; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Main Players on International Stage with Increasing Responsibility; Grounds for Cooperation between China and EU on International Security MattersConvergent points in their security strategy; Similarity ; in the examination of the security situation; Common option for multilateralism; Focus on political solution of international conflicts; Development as essential element for security; Divergent points on the security problem; Different attitude regarding internal affairs of other countries; The Taiwan issue; Proposals for More Effective Security Cooperation between China and EU; Optimize the utility of canals of dialogue; Themes for possible cooperation; 5 The Reform of the UNUN Security Council (UNSC) as Key Security Governance Actor; Making the Security Council More Representative: The Membership Issue; Regulating the Use of Force; The Responsibility to Protect; Enhancing Security Council's Peacekeeping and Peace Building Capacity; II GEOPOLITICS; 6 The US Factor; The Primacy of the Transatlantic Relationship; European Alignment with the United States in East Asia - Four Scenarios; China, the Transatlantic Alliance and theWorld Order; Conclusion; 7 Taiwan; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Taiwan Revisionist Policy; External Actors; Solution to the Crisis; EU PERSPECTIVE8 China and Its Neighbors; The EU and ASEAN; Managing a Problematic Heritage; Managing a Problematic Heritage; Finding a Balance between Political, Economic and Cultural Relations; Balancing Bilateralism, Multilateralism and Interregionalism; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Introduction; Multilateral Cooperation in China's Neighborhood; Does the Regional Multilateralism Aim at Building a "Fortress East Asia"?; Implications for Other Parts of theWorld; 9 Japan; EU PERSPECTIVE; CHINA PERSPECTIVE; Chinese PremierWen's Visit to Japan: New Thinking Launched?; Ice-Melting Trip: What Sorts of Ice is Bestowing China-Japan Relations?
• Sommario/riassunto: Negotiations for a new EU-China Partnership & Cooperation Agreement have just got underway and are likely to take two to three years. This is the first book to explore the wide range of issues affecting the China-EU relationship, including the US factor, environmental issues, WTO, governance, trade matters, civil society, democracy, the RMB, energy security, arms embargo, UN reform, Taiwan, Japan, North Korea, Africa and many others. The result of an intense, collaborative exercise between over 30 respected Chinese and European scholars, this timely book highlights the necessity of a China-E