CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Understanding China today: the key issues
The State, the Party, democracy and the
rule of law
Central and provincial government; unity
and minorities
The real "great leap forward"
Domestic pressures and the demographic time-bomb
Environmental problems
The EU's institutional arrangements with
China
The EU's policy towards China
UK policy towards China
This report
CHAPTER 2: THROUGH CHINESE
EYES: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EU FOR CHINA
The EU as a political partner
The EU or Member States as partners?
Political and economic linkage
The view of the people
What China wants from the EU
CHAPTER 3: EU PERCEPTIONS,
EU ACTIONS
The significance of China for the EU
Current structures
Coherence and consistency
A strategic partnership?
The interests of the Member States
The Partnership and Cooperation Agreement
CHAPTER 4: CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL
RESPONSIBILITY: STABILITY AND WORLD ORDER
China on the global stage: ambitious
to rise but reluctant to commit
Non-interference and the UN umbrella
Chinese involvement in peacekeeping and countering
piracy
G2, G20 and the triangular EU-US-China relationship
China's growing interest and engagement in
its region
Iran, North Korea, Burma
Pakistan, Afghanistan
CHAPTER 5: CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY:
SECURITY
China's Armed Forces, capability and
power projection
Science and Technology collaboration and
China's space and cyber programmes
Box 1: EU-China Science and Technology
Cooperation
The arms embargo
The 2003 attempt to lift the embargo
Box 2: EU Member State arms sales to China
The current position
Taiwan
CHAPTER 6: TRADE AND INVESTMENT
Box 3: EU-China Trade and Investment
CHAPTER 7: CLIMATE CHANGE
China's role and approach
The EU and China: partners in addressing
climate change?
Cooperation on energy and low carbon technologies
Box 4: EU China CCS initiative: phases
II & III
The Copenhagen conference
CHAPTER 8: HUMAN RIGHTS AND
THE RULE OF LAW
EU projects in China
EU-China Human Rights Dialogue
Promoting human rights through the United
Nations
Tibet and Xinjiang
Xinjiang
CHAPTER 9: CHINA AND THE EU
IN AFRICA: COMPETING MODELS OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION?
Table: Destination of African oil
exports (approximate figures)
China's growing role in Africa
Differing approaches
Transparency in Chinese aid
Box 5: The "resources for infrastructure"
deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Conditionality and good governance
Debt and labour issues
CHAPTER 10: HONG KONG
Box 6: Hong Kong Constitutional Arrangements
CHAPTER 11: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDIX 1: EU SUB-COMMITTEE C: FOREIGN
AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
APPENDIX 2: LIST OF WITNESSES
APPENDIX 3: CALL FOR EVIDENCE
APPENDIX 4: NOTES OF MEETINGS IN BEIJING,
GUANGZHOU AND HONG KONG 20-25 JULY 2009
APPENDIX 5: CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT
APPENDIX 6: CHINA PEACEKEEPING FIGURES
APPENDIX 7: A HISTORY OF EU RELATIONS
WITH CHINA
APPENDIX 8: BACKGROUND ON: A) THE INDIAN-CHINESE
DISAGREEMENT ON THE PROVINCE OF ARUNACHAL PRADESH B) TIBET; XINJIANG
APPENDIX 9: GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
APPENDIX 10: MAP OF CHINA
NOTE:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence
(p) refers to a page of written evidence
The Report of the Committee is published in Volume I, HL Paper
76-I.
The Evidence of the Committee is published in Volume II, HL Paper
76-II
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 76-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 76-II)
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