By Ruslan Stefanov, for CEPA
This report is a part of #CCPinCEE, a series of reports published by the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) analyzing Chinese influence efforts and operations across the nations of Central and Eastern Europe.
Goals and objectives of CCP malign influence
That the EU continues to imagine business as usual with China shows the internal contradictions of values, now sugar-coated by petty corporate interests.
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Why tactical bargaining won the EU-China Investment Deal
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In late December 2020, the European Union (EU) and China reached an agreement for the framework of a new investment deal, the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). The signing of the agreement caused considerable debate: even though the EU expressed its willingness to work closely with the Biden administration, Brussels concluded the investment agreement with Beijing on its own, weeks before the inauguration of the Biden presidency. Rather than reading too much into geopolitical positioning behind the agreement, we should see the CAI episode as revealing that the EU’s institutional, economic, and geopolitical interests are not always in sync. In the CAI, traditional political proclivities, institutional dynamics, and tactics superseded Europe’s strategic interest in transatlantic coordination and its consideration of communist China as a ‘systemic rival.’
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