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"On October 13, 2003, the PRC government published its 'Policy Paper on the Relationship with the EU'. This was the first time in PRC history that the Chinese government made its assessment of and strategic orientation for its relationship with a foreign country or a particular region of the world known to the public. This fact alone shows how much Sino-EU relations have gained in importance and how much hope is vested into the future development of this relationship on the side of the Chinese government. The EU had published its latest policy paper under the title of 'A Maturing Partnership - Shared Interests and Challenges in EU-China Relations' slightly earlier. In this paper, the EU underlines the maturity of its relationship to China and outlines a prospect of positive developments for the future. This article aims at comparing the two above mentioned policy papers by giving them a close reading and putting the interpretation of the texts into a historical context as well as into the context of academic debates on EU-China relations as conducted both in China and in Europe. The idea is to explore the mutual perceptions of what both sides call a 'maturing' partnership and to assess to which degree their mutual perceptions are compatible with each other." (extract)

"In this article the author tests whether the EU, which he defines as a trading power, has the ability to exert power and to influence the internal development (especially the promotion of democracy) of its trading partners from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP states) by using the access to its internal market as a bargaining chip. The author assesses the European Impact an trade relations operationalized as trade openness by using a two-stage least squares model (2SLS) with panel data covering the years from 1991 to 2008. Thereby he provides evidence that the EU has considerable success in linking trade issues with issues of democracy promotion in the ACP states." (author's abstract)