ABSTRACT
For a long time, the People’s Republic of China paid only marginal attention to the European integration process, and even less interest to EuroAtlantic security issues dismissed by Beijing as Cold War concerns and Western problems. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, however, European security policy has not only become a major focus of China’s foreign policy, but has also intertwined with Beijing’s broad geopolitical vision and grand strategy of ‘Peaceful Rise’.
