Strategic Stability: Can Europe Stabilise Relations with China After the Xi-Trump Summit? #Thinktank #EuropeanUnion

Strategic Stability: Can Europe Stabilise Relations with China After the Xi-Trump Summit? - CSDS
The Xi-Trump summit signals a shift towards short-term stabilisation in China-US relations, but both sides expected the stabilisation to be fragile, suggesting that the significant uncertainty and rivalry in bilateral relations have not changed. Given Trump’s sidelining of Europe’s China-related concerns, Europe should rethink its tactics of talking to China, in the interest of the long-term stabilisation of bilateral relationships. Europe’s approach to China needs to be clearly anchored in a European commitment to multilateralism and rules, presented to China in ways that resonate with China’s own policy priorities.






