Strategy Adjustments of the United States and the European Union vis-à-vis China: Democratic Global Power Identities and Fluid Polygonal Relations
Journal: Journal of Chinese Political Science
Year: 2022

How are the European Union and its individual member states positioning themselves within the intensifying trade war and power struggles between Washington and Beijing? Does the fact that both the United States and the EU have recently updated their strategic approach to China and continuously underline their democratic regime patterns and support for like-minded systems-contrasted with Beijing as a perceived promoter of an illiberal world order-imply a return of "Cold War" system antagonism? Co