The Energy Policy Cooperation Between China and the European Union

Abstract
This article deals with crucial political aspects of the cooperation between the EU and China in the field of energy, focusing not only on the institutionalized forms of cooperation, but also on the larger context of the Sino-European energy cooperation, including the issues of climate change, China’s internal political dynamics and the PRC’s investments in the EU. For China, the EU member states are not sources of energy resources themselves, but they possess important and valuable technologies and know-how; they also present business opportunities for Chinese energy enterprises. There is no automatic convergence of interests between these the two political entities; however, energy presents a potentially fruitful area of cooperation for both the EU and China, including in terms of fighting climate change and building a low-carbon economy, and this is even more so the case with the Trump administration in charge in the U.S.
Keywords
China, EU, energy policy, climate change, Chinese investments
Author Biography
Stanislav Myšička
Stanislav Myšička, born in 1983, is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hradec Králové. His research interests include modern Chinese history, Chinese foreign policy, international relations in Asia and history of political thought. He is the author of John Rawls and Theory of International Justice (Brno, CDK 2014).