![]() Its soft power diplomacy relies on repetitive and positive messages. Fascinatingly, its offers and their packaging are not very different from those offered to African and other developing nations: a flurry of projects creating competition among recipients, loans at commercial rates, and a strong insistence on identical statements and agreements.Ĭhina is now inside Europe. China holds its own summit with central and eastern European nations, the so-called 16+1, and it seized the opportunity of the euro crisis for massive takeovers in southern Europe. ![]() ![]() It has vastly increased efforts to strengthen bilateral relations with member states, putting special emphasis on Europe’s periphery. And it explains the increasing quest for reciprocity by Europeans.Ĭhina practises “pick and choose” in its relations with the European Union, focusing on its direct interests, and often ignoring EU norms in its proposals. What has not changed is the asymmetry claimed by China as a developing economy, even as it reaches the first rank among global economies. This is no longer only about a massive trade surplus it is also about investment, lending, and financial power which serves China’s public diplomacy. Since 2009, the time of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ first Power Audit, China has become more present and influential within Europe.
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