Of Pandas and Elephants: The EU is Positioning Itself between China and the US after the April 2019 EU-China Summit

Our Tereza Novotná comments the position of the EU after the EU-China Summit in April.

No matter how important the bilateral issues are, however, the most important outcome of the Brussels talks are two other aspects: firstly, the global context in which the summit took place and, secondly, the place of values, such as human rights, within the EU-China relationship.

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Tereza Novotná
Senior Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: EU foreign policy, North and South Korea and NE Asia; European External Action Service, EU Delegations; transatlantic relations and trade; EU enlargement and EU institutions; Germany (foreign and domestic politics, particularly in the Eastern parts of Germany).