Today, Europe is struggling with a series of old and new challenges. Hard choices can no longer be deferred.For half a decade, Europe has struggled with excessive debt (which remains excessively high), fiscal adjustment (which has failed to... [FULL TEXT]

Interactions between Chinese and European leaders intensify in recent days. Immediately after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Britain from October 19 to 23, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois H... [FULL TEXT]

China-EU relations have become much warmer in recent weeks. Shortly after President Xi Jinpings visit to U.K., King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande respectively cam... [FULL TEXT]

BRUSSELS - As the first Chinese leader to visit the EU headquarters, President Xi Jinping is seeking a new trade opening with Brussels, which needs deeper economic relations for its recovery agenda.In China President Xi’s visit to the... [FULL TEXT]

President Xi Jinping will kick off a trip to Europe on March 22, 2014 since his inauguration of President. Xi will participate in the international Nuclear Security Summit scheduled to be held in The Hague, and make a state visit to Netherl... [FULL TEXT]

(Mr. Edgars Rinkēvičs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia meets with Prof. Yang Jiemian) On October 25-26 I participated in the Baltic Forum for the first time. The Forum was launched by some Latvian political, economic and media figur... [FULL TEXT]

(Prof. Yang Jiemian attends the Annual Conference of the Baltic Forum)Speech prepared by Dr. Jiemian YANG, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China for Baltic ForumOctober 25th, 2013 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great plea... [FULL TEXT]

Since 2010, Europes decline has accelerated. Even a benign and incremental scenario suggests that, between 1980 and 2017, Europes share is likely to plunge from more than 32 percent to less than 20 percent of the world economy.The worst day... [FULL TEXT]

Climate change presents the European Union and other countries with shared economic, developmental and security challenges that have generated a perceptible shift in political, economic and environmental cooperation.On Oct 25, the US House ... [FULL TEXT]

Last summer, Washington’s indecision pushed America close to an edge. In thepast few weeks, indecision in Brussels, ECB and major European capitals haspushed the euro zone closer to ‘catastrophic risk.’ Policy reversals ar... [FULL TEXT]