ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what has come to be known about the set-up, coordination and content of the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, introducing the institutions involved on each side and the main topics on the Dialogue's agenda. The EU-China Human Rights Dialogue was initiated in 1995, the EU refrained from publicly sharing any details about its new policy. While COHOM fulfils a steering function for the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue, it has very limited resources with which to carry out this task. China's delegation is equally dominated by diplomats, with the MFA's Department of International Organizations and Conferences in the lead. The head of the Chinese delegation is the Director General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences. The Dialogue Seminars were, until 2001, organized on a rotating basis by various academic institutes in the EU, which represented the country of the acting Presidency and worked in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing.
