<p>China has been the second largest trading partner of EU in goods and the forth largest</p><p>in services since it joined the WTO in 2001. For its part, the European Union has been</p><p>China’s largest trading partner since 2004. Despite this, there are a range of issues at</p><p>stake between the EU and China who are not only involved into economica l disputes,</p><p>but are also at odds on politica l matters . In this paper the authors conduct the study</p><p>based on trade hindrances instead of trade achievements with the approaches of IPE</p><p>based on the assumption: the tenser of trade-ties, the deeper the politica l dimension</p><p>involved and the more delica te the relationship between Economy and Politics</p><p>projected to be. Considering the limitation of time and space, the paper focuses</p><p>prima rily on the trade issues regarded from three different angles: the internal issues</p><p>related to trade (e.g. trade deficit, IPR infringement); the external issues related to</p><p>trade (e.g. huma n rights); the ultimate issues rela ted to trade (e.g. technology). Instead</p><p>of putting forth feasible resolution to these issues, the ma in feature of this paper lies in</p><p>the analysis of trade issues in combination with the approaches of Internationa l</p><p>politica l economy. It’s interesting and far-reaching to research EU (trade) from the</p><p>perspective of IPE because as Michael Smith argued “The EU’s place in the IPE is</p><p>challenging not only in the empirica l sense, but also in the conceptual sense, for</p><p>simple reason that (on the one hand) it is not a state and that (on the other hand) it</p><p>performs a number of vital state functions in the IPE” (Michael Smith 2006, p.527).</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-2494 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Yang, Peng |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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