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Costa, C. M. & Yichao, L. (2023). China and European Union Countries: Do Chinese partnerships boost cooperation results?. JANUS.NET. 14 (1), 10-43

C. M. Costa and L. Yichao,  "China and European Union Countries: Do Chinese partnerships boost cooperation results?", in JANUS.NET, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 10-43, 2023

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	author = "Costa, C. M. and Yichao, L.",
	title = "China and European Union Countries: Do Chinese partnerships boost cooperation results?",
	journal = "JANUS.NET",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "14",
	number = "1",
	doi = "10.26619/1647-7251",
	pages = "10-43",
	url = "https://janusnet-ojs.autonoma.pt/index.php/janus/article/view/32/125"
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AB  - The People’s Republic of China and countries of the European Union (EU) have signed multiple diplomatic documents for cooperation under different types of conception. France was the first EU country to start a comprehensive partnership with China in 1997, and, by 2021, among the  27 EU  member  countries,  19  had  already  established  partnerships  with  China  (the exceptions  were  Estonia,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Luxembourg,  Malta,  Slovakia,  Slovenia,  and Sweden). Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was announced in 2013, 18 EU member states (except Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden) have signed MoUs with China. What this study investigates, however, is why some of the countries have opted to sign a BRI MoU but not establish partnerships with China. On the other hand, some countries that have long had partnerships with China have deepened or strengthened those partnerships,  yet have not signed a  BRI  MoU.  The  current study  is therefore motivated to pose this main research question: To what extent does the Chinese partnership framework facilitate practical cooperation between EU countries and China? The study also poses these secondary questions: What are the main differences between these cooperation documents? Do such differences in documentation result in discrepancies in the nature of cooperation? From a bilateral state-to-state perspective, the study compares joint statements pertaining to Chinese partnerships  with different  EU  countries,  analyzing how closely  they  are  tailored to  each  European  country’s  specificity.  Through reviewing the literature,  the authors gather data concerning  the outcomes  of cooperations  on  trade  and investment  between  China  and  EU  member  states,  and  analyze  any  official  diplomatic documents available.

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