By Tilman Pradt

December 24, 2015

"While the U.S. is shifting its strategic focus to Asia (the 'Asian Pivot'), China is rapidly intensifying its relations with Europe - and appears to be filling the strategic gap left there by Washington. As Chinese investment in (and trade with) Europe grows, so does Beijing's influence on EU politics.

In an online, crowdsourced analytic exercise, Wikistrat's experts recently predicted that the coming years will see a deepening of this China-Europe interdependence."

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http://thediplomat.com/2015/12/chinas-european-century/

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