"This Egmont paper aims to identify ways of overcoming the deadlock that often characterises EU-China co-operation in multilateral institutions and processes due to their differing interpretations of global governance. The paper draws on the perspectives of four Chinese experts of EU-China relations, each of which focuses on a particular policy domain when reflecting on how to render the co-operation of the two sides more effective in multilateral fora."--

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.

Two major themes in contemporary international relations—Sino-European relations and global governance—are both addressed in this volume. In its focused analysis of Sino-European relations, global governance serves as both a topic for analysis and a conceptual framework to join together individual chapters. Featuring perspectives from a diverse group of established and promising young scholars from China, Europe, and elsewhere, this book has important implications for Chinese foreign policy, the European Union, the future of global governance, and international relations at large.

Experiments in China's The land-based economic belt of the Silk Road has focused on the connectivity between China New Approach to Global and Europe (the Baltic) through central Asia and Russia; between China and the Persian Gulf and Governance the Mediterranean through central Asia and west Asia; and between China and the Indian Ocean via The BRI Southeast Asia and south Asia. [...] The Asian economy accounts for one- International Public Goods third of the global economy and 60 percent of the The BRI and AIIB have symbolized China's new world population, but the great potential of the concept of and approach to global governance under the leadership of President Xi. [...] Although the United States has turned toward pursuing its own infrastructure program Clearly, the initiatives of the AIIB and the BRI under the Indo-Pacific Strategy to counterbalance serve the interests of both developing countries the influence of the BRI, international development in Asia and beyond, as well as China's interests. [...] Noticeably, this is in line with the narrative developed by the Communist Party of Governance China and the Chinese government about peace and development as the main themes since the The 19th National Congress of the Communist beginning of reform and opening. [...] The In the future, China will be committed to providing erosion of the consensus on global governance can development assistance to developing countries be attributed to the conflicts of interest among via the AIIB, the ADB, the BRI and other programs.

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Political conditionality involves the linking of development aid to certain standards of observance of human rights and (liberal) democracy in recipient countries. Although this may seem to be an innocent policy, it has the potential to bring about a dramatic change in the basic principles of the international system: putting human rights first means putting respect for individuals and rights before respect for the sovereignty of states.

The contributors attempt to look into how China and Europe differently interpret political concepts such as: sovereignty, soft power, human rights, democracy, stability, strategic partnership, multilateralism/multipolarization, and global governance, to examine what implications of their conceptual gaps may have on China-EU relations.