China-EU Quiz 1

What are the main factors for the European Communities to establish diplomatic relations with PRC in the 1970s/early 80s?

• To promote political reform in China domestically

• To attract China's investment in the EC

• To strengthen anti-USSR 'ally'

• To seek overseas markets in the context of the 2nd oil crisis (1979)

What is/are the EU sanction(s) under the Tiananmen effect still in force?

• the suspension of high-level political dialogue

• arms embargo

• the suspension of economic and cultural relations

• the suspension of scientific and technological cooperation

Which European colonies went back to PRC in the 1990s? From which European countries?

• Hong Kong from Spain

• Macau from Portugal

• Qingdao from Germany

• Hong Kong from the UK

Given the frequency and timing of issuing policy papers,

• China is more important to the EU

• The EU is more important to China

• China and the EU have the same importance to each other

China and the EU started to address each other as 'strategic partners' in

• 1995 when the EU issued its first policy paper on China

• 1998 at their first annual summit

• 2001 when China joined WTO and the EU validated its 1998 policy paper on China

• 2003 when China issued its policy paper on the EU and the EU published a new policy paper on China

The EU granted China the market economy status during their "blind date' period.

• Yes

• No, the granting was in the 2010s.

• No, the EU has not granted the market economy status to China.

In the EU's 2019 policy on China, it identified China as

• a negotiating partner

• an economic competitor

• a systemic rival

• a security threat

According to Yuan Li and Zhigao He (2022),

• the US acts as a key complementary factor in the EU-China relations

• power symmetry is the most important structural factor in the EU-China relations

• the EU is forced to hold the same perceptions of China as that of the US

• the US acts as the most important structural factor in the EU-China relations

According to Jing Men (2014), which arguments are NOT correct?

• the EU and China are equal partners

• China likes to be a modest 'student' to learn from the EU

• China shares the same visions as the EU in bilateral relations

• the EU pays great attention to equality and mutual respect in its policy papers on China

Jing Men (2014) claimed that

• the EU is a realist player in international affairs

• China and the EU are different players in nature

• Annual summits and high-level dialogues are well-developed institutional arrangements

• China is a liberal player in international affairs