Courses
POLS7540 China-EU, Prospects, Opportunities and Challenges (3 units)
This course aims to equip the students with knowledge and expertise on the relations between the European Union and China. China and the EU have become important partners. The EU is China's largest trading partner, while China is the EU's second largest trading partner. EU and China trade more than €1.5 billion on a daily basis. The relations between China and the EU are characterised by cooperation and competition. The course will show, through arguments and actual examples, how the diplomats of the EU and China at the highest level of deliberation negotiate and communicate agreements beneficial for both parties. The overarching theme of this course is to explore how China and the EU engage in deliberations about important issues like human rights, trade and development, environment, climate change, and energy. In order to do so, this course will train the students to act like foreign policymakers and diplomats from either the EU or China. The final event of the course will take the form of a EU-China negotiations simulations and will be held at the EU office to Hong Kong and Macao.