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progress between India and China bears fruit, Iran is socialized, Syria stabilized.
Comprehensive peace in the Middle East is pursued. (11) Define the terms for the
resumption of multilateral trade talks in WTO 38 as called for by The European Council.
There is consensus between the US and the EU on the need for China to sign-up for the
WTO as a develop-ped nation. WTO governance structures, in turn, should be
strengthened – not merely normalized. (12) Ask EEAS to put forward proposals on what
kind of data is to be collected on China and Asia (13) Put pressure on Beijing to integrate
environmental planning into CCP’s five-year plans 39 , the most influential and
consequential way to induce a change of direction into China’s policy processes. (14)
Launch an EU initiative on conflict management in the South China Sea (15) Adopt
policies and cooperation projects on food security in China to ensure the encroachment of
man onto animals and the closing down of the Chinese wildlife animal farming industry
serving social purposes. Man and animal breathe together, it says in the Bible. They should
not devour and encroach on each other’s habitat (16). Address the problem of exploiting
the Pacific’s undersea resources, the management, policing, and funding of marine
protected areas in an appropriate format (17), And subsequently, EU-China Dialogue on
Beijing’s relationship with the US-led international order 40
This strategy should be considered a package and executed according to a sequencing
based on fundamental trade-offs and choices to be agreed upon by executives. There is the
TPP which is not necessarily in EU merchants’ interests. My message: Call China’s bluff,
and proceed pragmatically with determination and ambition with both “roundness” and
“squares.” Thus, the EU is faced with a stark choice. The nation-states of Europe may use
themselves in furthering the EU integration project until they collapse and the Asians take
charge. Or a new European order may emerge along with EU leadership in global affairs.
This is my approach towards an integrated US-European Strategy on China towards
constructive cooperation and international partnership. Indeed, France’s style of a staged
dismantlement of former day’s national leadership does not need to be translated into a
total abandonment of the uses of Great Britain’s rule-and-divide-polices in Asia, which
historically has served the ascendancy of the European nation-states in World Affairs and
the conquest of markets in Asia, and which China, in turn, has learned to take as a given
and advance its interests from that place. Nor should we pretend things can and will
remain the same as Asia rise. Ultimately, it is up to the Asians to address the question of
the political maturity of Asia as a region. Suffice it to say that history teaches us there are
no permanent losers or winners in international politics. This, in turn, raises the
question 41 : What is a great power? Who are the great powers? What are the goods they
compete over? What is the relationship and sequencing between the EU’s Strategy on
reform of the UNSC and the objectives of a multi-bilateral policy review of EU’s Strategic
Partnerships or perhaps even the setting up of an EU-led international society?
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