A web conference organized in partnership with Sciences Po’s Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) 
 

In December 2020, the European Union signed an agreement with China to facilitate investments on both sides. This decision shows a certain willingness of the 27 to develop a diplomacy towards China that is independent of the United States. Is it a concrete proof of a European diplomacy that assumes its strategic autonomy and imposes itself as a geopolitical power?
Special advisor to Josep Borrell, Zaki Laïdi will give us his personal analysis of the EU/China relationship. Three Sciences Po's scholars will question him before giving the floor to every participant on zoom.

Speakers: 

Zaki Laïdi, Senior Advisor to Josep Borrell, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission (*).

The talk will be followed by questions from Sciences Po's scholars Stéphanie Balme, David Camroux and Earl Wang 

Chair:
Christian Lequesne, CERI and PSIA

(*) The speaker’s views are his own and do not engage the EU institutions.

Scientific coordinator : Christian Lequesne, Sciences Po - CERI