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The EU-US-China Strategic Grand Triangle: Wishful Thinking or Work in Progress?
28 March, 2006, EIAS Brussels

Speaker: Mr. Willem van Kemenade, China Analyst & Consultant, Beijing
Chair: Dr. Willem van der Geest, Director, European Institute for Asian Studies
Discussant: Dr. Sebastian Bersick, Senior Research Fellow, European Institute for Asian Studies

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The regional influence of the European Union, United States and People’s Republic of China has begun to take on a new dimension as the three powers engage in strategic dialogues and partnerships, which might eventually lead to an EU-US-China Strategic Grand Triangle. Will growing interdependence, new global challenges and the ‘Peaceful Rise’ of China lead to a shifting global balance of power? How can growing convergence and cooperation be managed in the face of increasing competition and strategic rivalries?

The European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) is honoured to welcome Mr. Willem van Kemenade to its premises to examine the feasibility and implications of said EU-US-China Strategic Grand Triangle not only for the parties involved, but the international system at large.

Mr. van Kemenade is an independent analyst and consultant in the Politics and Economics of China and (South-) East Asia, specialising in regional trade and investment flows in East- South- and Southeast Asia, China-Taiwan relations, China-Japan relations, China-EU relations and China’s global strategic and economic relations in general.

A longtime lecturer, writer and consultant on China for such institutions as Clingendael and IIAS in the Netherlands, he has been affiliated with EIAS in the context of his contribution to The European Union’s Strategic Interests in East Asia – an EIAS/Nomisma study undertaken for the EU Commission in 2005.

Listen (mp3) to the speaker being interviewed by Dr Bersick

Download Mr van Kemenade's presentation as a Flash or pdf