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This analysis argues that the rise of China and the emergence of India pose intellectual, technological, organisational and political challenges for the European Union and for the West in general, but also provide opportunities. Both consistently registered high growth rates before the global financial crisis and the Euro-zone sovereign debt crisis led to a contraction. However, European perceptions of the opportunities of a Chinese market with a population of a billion-plus, for example, have now been replaced by perceptions of a more assertive China, as an economic challenge and threat.