Qualitative Changes in the Development of the EU-China Relationships: From one-dimensional, more-limited and one level cooperation to the all-dimensional, wide-ranging and multi-tiered Strategic Partnership
Qualitative Changes in the Development of the EU-China Relationships: From one-dimensional, more-limited and one level cooperation to the all-dimensional, wide-ranging and multi-tiered Strategic Partnership

Summary/Abstract: EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership from 2003 intensified cooperation between the EU and China and its new dimension was started ten years later (November 2013) after the adoption of “EU-China 2020 Strategic Agenda for Cooperation”. The road to this partnership and to its current developing stage was long and difficult. It highlighted a shift from one-dimensional (trade), to all-dimensional (trade, economic, political and other) from more-limited (covering a few areas) to wide-ranging (covering an extensive range of areas) and from one-level (interstate) to multi-tiered (local, interstate, supranational) cooperation. In an effort to recap almost forty years (1975-2013) of the development of EU-China relations here are this paper’s objectives: to explore the major milestones in the evolution of EU-China cooperation, briefly evaluate this cooperation in different periods, which are defined by the given milestones, and to depict its shift in depth, breadth and quality of EU-China relations. Qualitative changes in the development of the EU-China relationships and reaction of mutual governance led to the current dimension of the EU-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, which the authors discuss in the next writings.

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