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"The EU needs to recognise that China has very different views on issues that Europeans hold dear" (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

Europe fast, China slow

Baroness Ashton is in China once again to help clarify a little better what exactly it is that a strategic partnership between China and the EU should look like. Since its declaration in 2003, thinkers across the EU and China have puzzled together and apart over exactly how to implement this grand rhetoric, with no discernible conclusion. The reason for this: both sides have very different interpretations of what this means.

During a recent research interview in Beijing, a connected and...

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"The EU needs to recognise that China has very different views on issues that Europeans hold dear" (Photo: ec.europa.eu)

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