With transatlantic relations under threat from the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States, the European Union and China seem poised to work closer together as partners on global issues from climate change to free trade. Strikingly, however, in recent years scrutiny over China’s foreign economic policy has grown in many European capitals. Will apprehension over China’s new assertiveness in global politics grow into the future, or can the world’s largest single market and an aspiring global superpower find common ground?
Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and the University of Oxford. He is author of "The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan" (Hurst, 2014). His writing on China’s rise features in: The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs.
Email: lpa@diis.dk
