New leadership in EU-China: Ireland's EU presidency vs. Chinese Xi Jinping

• Main Author: CHENG, Yu-Chin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje 2013-06-01
• Series: Bezbednosni Dijalozi
• Subjects: eu weapon embargo against china; the eu financial crisis; the eu-china relations; the eu-china leadership
• Online Access: http://periodica.fzf.ukim.edu.mk/sd/SD%2004.1%20(2013)/SD%2004.1.05%20Yu-Chin,%20C.%20-%20NEW%20LEADERSHIP%20IN%20EU-CHINA.pdf

This paper aims to analyze how the EU and China cooperate to tackle the EU financial crisis, and how the EU and China restart military cooperation under the new leadership that refers to Ireland's EU Presidency and the Chinese Xi Jinping in 2013. This research applies the Comparative Case Study Research Design to set the two abovementioned questions in order to analyze how the new leadership responds, and it employs Neo-liberalism to be the theory base to analyze the EU-China relations in the EU financial crisis and military cooperation. At last but not least, the research process data by the principles of the OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence). The research finding speaks that China has a strong willingness to help the EU solve the EU financial problem, but China cannot avoid risk while helping the EU financial crisis, but therefore, China provides help but not much. In accordance with the EU-China military cooperation. The EU cannot skip political stress from the USA, and they have no process to lift up the weapon embargo against China, but more and more countries have already helped or cooperated with China in the military field because more and more European countries have been tired of US-China hostility or competition, and the voice for China, and believe China has no threat against the EU member states.