Hans Kundnani - Germany and China - 05 March 2014
Channel: IIEA
Date: 07/03/2014

About the Speech:

With nearly half of all EU exports to China originating from Germany, and with half of all Chinese imports into the EU going to Germany, the interaction between these two nations underlines the EU's relationship with this rising power. Hans Kundnani considered the political and economic ties between Berlin and Beijing, and examined their wider importance on the global stage.

About the Speaker:

Hans Kundnani is the research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, where he specialises in German foreign policy. He is also an associate fellow at the Institute for German Studies at Birmingham University. He previously worked as a full-time journalist and was a Berlin correspondent for the Observer. He is the author, along with Jonas Parello-Plesner, of China and Germany: a New Special Relationship?