Shaping a New International Order

Chinese initiatives like “One Belt, One Road” are intentionally open and flexible; no uniform rules or norms are set from the beginning. One of the major challenges for the EU and European countries in the cooperation with China stems from this openness or vagueness, and from doubts about rules that might be applied differently in global and regional contexts.

Gudrun Wacker Senior Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1SB3Qg7