Abstract

WANG, Weidong  and  PICCIAU, Simona. How to strengthen EU-China cooperation based on Belt and Road. rev.relac.int.estrateg.segur. [online]. 2018, vol.13, n.1, pp.21-33. ISSN 1909-3063.  https://doi.org/10.18359/ries.2915.

The Belt and Road initiative presented by the Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2013 is a development plan aiming at promoting, cooperating and strengthening person-to-person connections between Asia, Africa, and Europe. China has already signed cooperation agreements with more than 40 countries belonging to the Belt and Road region and has been training international cooperation with more than 30 countries. The implementation of the initiative has already had a deep impact on Sino-European relations, is a topic that deserves further analysis. The Belt and Road initiative can represent an excellent opportunity to promote China-EU relations based on win-win cooperation and aimed at fostering mutual respect, understand and humane interchange. The main objective of this paper is to study the influence of the Belt and Road plan on China-EU cooperation; through an analysis of some measures already taken and the challenges posed by the EU and China to strengthen their relations.

Keywords : Belt and Road; China; cooperation; European Union; international development.

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