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Chinese Investment in the European Agricultural Infrastructure
Europe's food sector infrastructure—which includes agricultural land, food production, processing companies, food safety, agri-transport, logistics, and agri-research and development—has become interconnected since the development of the single market. As a result, food production in Europe has now developed into a transcontinental system. Under a wider policy of Chinese outward FDI by means of the Go Global policy, Chinese companies are increasing their investments in the foreign agri-food sector. Chinese firms are increasingly acquiring agri-food companies in Europe. This is part of a broader state policy to increase Chinese food security. These concepts are analyzed using a governance approach. China is not a unitary actor investing in Europe's food sector infrastructure. Rather, the investment pattern differs between Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies. The aim of this article is to understand why China continues to invest in European agricultural infrastructure despite growing tensions. The article argues that knowledge transfer from the EU agri-food sector allows China to meet its national objective of upgrading the Chinese food system.
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The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the changing dynamics in the relationship between the African continent and the EU, provided by leading experts in the field.
Structured into five parts, the handbook provides an incisive look at the past, present and potential futures of EU-Africa relations. The cutting-edge chapters cover themes like multilateralism, development assistance, institutions, gender equality and science and technology, among others. Thoroughly researched, this book provides original reflections from a diversity of conceptual and theoretical perspectives, from experts in Africa, Europe and beyond. The handbook thus offers rich and comprehensive analyses of contemporary global politics as manifested in Africa and Europe.
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations will be an essential reference for scholars, students, researchers, policymakers and practitioners interested and working in a range of fields within the (sub)disciplines of African and EU studies, European politics and international studies.
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Africa Relations is part of the mini-series Europe in the World Handbooks examining EU-regional relations and established by Professor Wei Shen.
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Soft Power and Tourism: A Study of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Africa
The increase of Sino-African interactions in trade, aid and investments has attracted Chinese tourists to Africa. The Beijing Action Plan of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) outlines China’s cultural diplomacy in Africa, delineating a number of areas of cultural cooperation: education; press, publishing and media; and tourism and people-to-people exchange programs in academia and think tanks among young people, women and athletes. Though scholars of International relations (IR) have detected that tourism is one way of manifesting soft power, they do not feel comfortable nor ready to place the promotion of tourism into standard IR discourse. This is in contrast to scholars of tourism studies who have recognized the political nature of China's outbound tourism, particularly to less-developed areas such as Africa. In this paper, we have argued that the Chinese government uses outbound tourism to perform its perceived relationship with African countries; that is, Beijing aspires to be seen as a benign rising power willing to help weaker countries develop and establish harmonious ties. It is hard to separate the economic and cultural functions of outbound tourism, each of which reinforces the other, although not without limits. We find that not all African countries’ national tourism policies are capable of, or willing to prioritize, attracting Chinese tourists. Moreover, we find that South Africa is most active in working with public relations companies in China to promote South Africa as a tourist destination.
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The Influence of Covid-19 on the Power Transition between the United States and China: The Case of Southeast Asia
The Covid-19 pandemic is currently analysed as a social and economic problem,
predominantly at a national level, even though certain activities are
coordinated at an international or supranational level. While there are varying
levels of vulnerability in different countries, the pandemic is having a
significant effect on the global system's relative distribution of power, which
will change in the aftermath of the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis.
This problem is especially visible in relations between the current leader of
the international system—the United States—and its main challenger, the People's
Republic of China. The chief goal of this paper is to analyse Covid-19's
influence on the transformation of the global system, with a special focus on
the roles of the US and China. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the
relative distribution of power between the US and China will be analysed. The
analysis will be based on the power transition theory. A single case study of
Southeast Asia is used to study the impact of Covid-19 on the power distribution
between China and the US.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons
attribution license, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access funding
provided by IReL.
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The People’s Republic of China and European Union Security Cooperation in Africa: Sino-EU Security Cooperation in Mali and the Gulf of Aden
The United States' pivot toward Asia has fuelled a new round of debates about the role of key Asian actors such as the People's Republic of China (China) and traditional actors such as the European Union (EU) in global security. Using role theory, this paper examines EU-China security cooperation. The paper presents two case studies: Sino-EU maritime security cooperation in the Gulf of Aden and Sino-EU peacekeeping cooperation in Mali. These case studies examine the EU's and China's roles as security actors and as normative actors within non-traditional security challenges. The paper illustrates the kind of role the EU could play in the world in terms of security issues, as well as the norms and values that global security responses could create. The paper also gives a greater insight into the role a rising China could play in global security governance.
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The Influence of Covid-19 on the Power Transition between the United States and China: The Case of Southeast Asia
The Covid-19 pandemic is currently analysed as a social and economic problem, predominantly at a national level, even though certain activities are coordinated at an international or supranational level. While there are varying levels of vulnerability in different countries, the pandemic is having a significant effect on the global system's relative distribution of power, which will change in the aftermath of the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis. This problem is especially visible in relations between the current leader of the international system-the United States-and its main challenger, the People's Republic of China. The chief goal of this paper is to analyse COVID-19's influence on the transformation of the global system, with a special focus on the roles of the US and China. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relative distribution of power between the US and China will be analysed. The analysis will be based on the power transition theory. A single case study of Southeast Asia is used to study the impact of COVID-19 on the power distribution between China and the US.
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Expectations and Adaptation: China's Foreign Policies in a Changing Global Environment
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has highlighted the changing landscape of international relations and the enormous pressure on the People's Republic of China to redefine its international position. Based on two case studies, China's Africa policy and its response to the global financial and economic crisis, we argue that China's foreign policies are currently characterized by an adaptation of its historical role conception as a \"leading developing country\" to that of a \"responsible caretaker\" in international, especially economic affairs. In its own perceptions - developed in constant exchange with external perceptions of China - as well as in its actions, the PRC finds itself drawn faster and further into a complex web of global governance than anticipated by its policy elites. Acknowledging the benefits of a stronger involvement, the PRC steps up its engagement with regional, multilateral and global orders and is actively pursuing their recalibration. Contradictions within the Chinese leadership, conflicting themes in public discourse and incoherent actions highlight the difficulties even for a technocratic one-party elite with a limited - albeit real and important - need to assure domestic support and legitimacy to define the global role of an \"emerging great power\". [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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