China as a Stress Test for Europe’s Coherence

Author(s): Henrik Larsen, Linda Maduz
Editor(s): Michael Haas, Oliver Thränert
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2020: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 55-80
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Place: Zurich

China’s growing influence in Europe has the potential to create new geo-economic divides. Its purchase of critical infrastructures and successful promotion of national high-tech giants hold long-term security implications for Europe and the world order. As always, Europe’s first and most vexing challenge is to find unity. To promote coherence across the continent, the EU will have to implement an activist industrial policy to boost its own high-tech competitive advantage and take all necessary measures to prevent growing economic dependencies on China.

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