Description
In the last few years, the European Union has adopted a wide range of measures to protect its industrial base, secure supply chain, and enhance competition against China and the US. These measures include the foreign investment screening mechanism, the Chips Act, foreign subsidiary regulation, and the RepowerEU Plan. This article compares how the EU’s adoption of these ‘geoeconomic measures’ has been received by European and Chinese scholars. It first introduces the context in which the EU adopts the geoeconomic measure in response to the strategic competition between China and the US. It then sets out the methodology used to examine European and Chinese scholarly discourses. It next examines how EU’s geoeconomic turn has been received differently by Chinese and European scholars. It finally concludes that the way in which the EU’s geoeconomic turn is constructed differently in Chinese and European academic discourses matters for China-EU relations.
