The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA

Jing Men is Baillet Latour Chair of EU-China Relations and Director of the EU-China Research Centre in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies of the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Simon Schunz is a Professor in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies of the College of Europe in Bruges, the Academic Coordinator of the joint College of Europe–The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy ‘Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs’ (MATA) and an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS, Bruges, Belgium. Duncan Freeman is Research Fellow at the EU-China Research Centre in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies of the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. A New Order or No Order? The EU-China-US Relationship and its Impact on Global Order Part 2: Foreign and Security Policy 3. China, the EU, the US, and Global (Security) Governance 4. Caught between a Withdrawing Hegemon and an Emerging leader – What Role for the European Union in the Evolving US-China-EU ‘Triangle’? 5. The United States in a Global Triangle? Re-configuring US-EU and US-China Foreign Policy and Security Relations Part 3: Economics and Trade 6. EU-China-US Trilateral Relations: Status quo, Problems and Perspectives 7. The European Union’s Trade Strategy in the Emerging Tripolar Structure with the United States and China 8. A Disorderly Retreat from Global Governance? US Trade and Investment Policies in the Trump Era Part 4: Climate Change and Energy 9. The EU-China-US Trilateral Relations in Global Climate Governance: The Perspective of China 10. The EU-US-China Triangles and the Paris Agreement: A Clash of Orders? 11. Climate Change Politics in the US, China and the EU: Climate Science and the Framing of Climate Action Part 5: Conclusion 12. Conclusion