Number: 96-566
Title: Europe and China -- An Emerging Relationship
Authors: Robert G. Sutter, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division 
Abstract: Reflecting in large part European concern to become more closely linked with China's rising market within the burgeoning East Asian economies, the 16-member European Union (EU) has been unusually active in the past two years in building ties with Beijing. The United States welcomes greater European involvement in China, but U.S. policy makers sometimes complain that the EU eagerness to trade conflict with U.S. efforts to press China to conform better to internationally accepted norms.
Pages: 6
Date: Updated June 21, 1996