{"id":902,"date":"2017-12-01T08:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T08:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwdev-idos-gr.sociality.gr\/?p=902"},"modified":"2017-12-01T08:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T08:29:29","slug":"chinese-investment-europe-threat-opportunity-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwdev-idos-gr.sociality.gr\/en\/chinese-investment-europe-threat-opportunity-neither\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Investment in Europe: Threat or Opportunity? Neither or Both?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">On 16 July 2917, <strong>Mr Plamen Tonchev<\/strong>, Head of Asia Unit at IIER, gave a talk to an international audience at the Olympia Summer School (OSA) in Nafplio, Greece. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The topic of his lecture was:<\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Chinese Investment in Europe: Threat or Opportunity? Neither or Both?&#8221;<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blod.gr\/lectures\/Pages\/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=3642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4598973948203419132gmail-western\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><b>Two excerpts from his talk:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4598973948203419132gmail-western\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Why talk about Chinese investment in Europe?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4598973948203419132gmail-western\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Well, because it\u2019s the talk of the town and because it\u2019s growing rapidly. And also because Europeans are becoming increasingly suspicious about Chinese investment in Europe.\u00a0Until recently, China used to be the destination for European (as well as American) investment capital.\u00a0However,\u00a0Europeans are growing worried about a wave of corporate takeovers in Europe by state-run Chinese firms and are concerned about increasingly limited access to China\u2019s market. If China retains the same growth rate of its outward investment to Europe, by the end of 2017 the volume of Chinese FDI is likely to outpace respective EU investment in China.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\">So, is Chinese investment in Europe an opportunity or threat? Neither or both?\u00a0<\/span>I tend to say \u201cboth\u201d. But I\u2019m also tempted to quote the title of the movie \u201cFifty shades of grey\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_-4598973948203419132gmail-western\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4598973948203419132gmail-western\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As regards the strategic EU-China partnership, there is a delicate balance to be struck between growing \u2013 and inevitable \u2013 interdependence on the one hand, and preserving a reasonable degree of sovereignty and decision-making capacity on the other hand. Moreover,\u00a0the EU and China do share a common understanding on key issues, such as globalisation, climate change, etc. &#8211; issues that are becoming even more prominent with an isolationist Trump in the White House.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16 July 2917, Mr Plamen Tonchev, Head of Asia Unit at IIER, gave a talk to an international audience at the Olympia Summer School (OSA) in Nafplio, Greece. 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