The European Union And The People's Republic Of China

Asia used the silk road to trade silk in order to receive gold and ideas, Europe traded gold in order to receive fragrances, jewels, ivory, sugar and also, sent European pictures and luxury goods. Africa traded rare timbers, gold,ivory,animals and spices. They recieved anything they could because they were so big. Because of all of the items they traded everyone was able to survive because they had a mix of everything. This Impacted Asia and Europe because they gained goods that they needed and distributed goods they didn't need so they were able to thrive.

The Silk Roads created many opportunities for trade in Europe. Many empires and kingdoms traded many materials and products. Silk, teas, salts, sugars, spices, and many more goods, were traded throughout Europe. This helped many ideas and cultures spread. For instance, various religions and rituals were spread. This caused different cultures to infiltrate empires of different religions. China, specifically, had a taste of many different religions during this time. From Buddhism in the Han Dynasty, to the Islam in the Tang, China had many cultures travel

The Silk Road is a trading route on the continent of Eurasia that stretches from the vast coast of China all the way to Eastern Europe. The trade route was at its greatest use from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. The society that began the Silk Road was the Han Dynasty in China in approximately 200 B.C.E. The Han Dynasty facilitated trade in the east, while the Roman Empire facilitated trade in the west and in Europe. The two empires traded many goods, as well as cultural aspects of each society’s way of life. From 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E., the Silk Road changed in terms of trade, such as what items were traded, and contact with civilizations, such as what societies made use of the Silk Road. Although these changes affected the efficiency of trade

Economically, Europe co-opting ideas with Asia would boost both economies especially Europe’s. Therefore, instead off trying to take over the Asian trade market, the nations should have joined forces and worked with each other’s idea. For example, instead of Britain trying to maintain dominance over

The sea routes trade is not in basic goods these were grown locally but in luxury goods for the place. The land routes china its appeared in chin ease silk roads around 500 BC in Europe. There are different reasons that kept the old world together such as routes. The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that for centuries were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea Trade on the Silk Road played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between the civilizations. Though silk was certainly the major trade item exported from China, many other goods were traded, and religions, syncretic philosophies, and various technologies, as well as diseases, also spread along the Silk

The opium wars revealed many problems with the relationship between China and The Western Powers, especially Great Britain. For example, China had fallen behind the rest of the world economy its technology due to the use of old aged traditions, another example being that once the trading started to expand and free trading was introduced relationships strained between china and The Western Powers, this was all due to the large influx of smuggled / traded opium. When the emperor tried to ban opium from being traded / smuggled into the country the English and the French decided to start two opium wars.

However, as time went on, the two began to interact, and this interaction between the two had actually benefited the Christians as well as Europe, as they got access to the Islamic culture by the contact with the Muslims. There were many changes that went through Europe during that period as the empire ruled some of them are as follows with their description: 2.1 Silk Trade and Production control: Around 60 CE the west had been able to be careful that silk was not created on the trees in China yet was truly spun by silk worms. The Chinese had

Many thousands of years ago, upon the earliest creations of civilization, there were two thriving civilizations. Both of which knew little to nothing about each other’s existence. In this ancient world, there was no connection of the two civilizations, no trade in commerce or culture. It was not until the second century BC that Europe and Eastern Asia interacted in a significant way. What is known as “The Silk Road” was established during the Han Dynasty of China, it was a network of trade routes that created a link between these two regions during this ancient world (ancient.eu). Though these routes have history prior to the Han Dynasty, this is when many historians see the routes in full practice. This time during the second century BC was crucial in the connection of these separately thriving civilizations, connecting them through commerce, religion, and exploration.

Before European contact China was a wealthy country, isolated and self-sufficient with a highly developed agricultural system. China was not industrialized, but workers in small workshops were able to produce most of the goods the Chinese needed. Because China was practically self-sufficient, its emperors had little interest in trading with Europeans. For decades, Europeans could do business only at the port of Canton. Despite appeals from Britain and other nations, China refused to open other ports to foreigners. The Chinese regarded Europeans and their goods as inferior to their own and bought few goods from the European merchants.

The Silk Road’s Influence on China The Silk Road, an ancient trade route, contributed profoundly to the cultural exchange between Western Asia, Europe, and China. As people traversed with each other, they conveyed their beliefs, ideas, and inventions. Civilizations among Rome, India, Persia, and China traded their knowledge from the second century BC to the fifteenth century AD. Buddhism, Islam, and Nestorianism were cultural treasures that were bestowed upon Ancient China via the Silk Road.

The Birth of Classical Europe by Simon Price and Peter Thonemann argues the foundation of Europe is not self – made civilization, which credibly absorbed technological and cultural elements from rest of the world. European gathered things like cast iron, magnetic compasses, gunpowder, and silk mostly from Far East, China through the hand of merchants. Europeans took almost 1500 years to well operate the technological and cultural learning.In the book The Silk Road in World History, Xinru Liu provides an innovatively comprehensive way to expose The Silk Road, to place The Silk Road as the example of the world history and talk about it both globally and locally for “Examining our world and for envisioning the interconnected future that is in the making”(Liu X). Therefore, the complex trading network The Silk Road was the perfect subject, which not only geographically connected the East and the West, but also considered as “a system of commercial routes” (Liu 10). More importantly, the Silk Road was the symbol of cultural exchange and power authority throughout the large territory it linked. That is to say, the story of The Silk Road is actually power struggle within the aspects of silk, religions, and empires.

China and U.S. have been in a constant back and forth intelligence war for decades. The end of the Cold War allowed the U.S., in particularly the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to refocus its counterintelligence efforts to combat not only Russia, but also China. The Ministry of State Security (MSS), China’s equivalent to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was waging an espionage war to gather on the U.S.’s nuclear programs, counterintelligence programs, and other military technology programs. China’s espionage program was very effective and in multiple cases when Chinese agents were caught they were able to beat the U.S. justice system and receive little punishment. One such case was that of Katrina Leung, who was able to effectively spy on the U.S. under the nose of the FBI for nearly 15 years and still walks free to this day.

China and the United States has its own unique culture. What is culture? According to Kluckhohn and Kroeber ‘Culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups’ (Dowling, Festing, & Engle, 2013, p. 24). There are many interesting facts surrounding their culture. In this paper I will compare China’s culture to the culture of the United States to determine if China is a good match for a United States multinational firm who is looking to enter a foreign market. The aspects of culture difference I will be focusing on will include the following: language, religion, music, cooking, social norms and customs. The paper will end with a conclusion of my findings.

Despite the economically strategic partnership, the well-established and institutionalised dialogue channels that the EU and China share, there are a number of challenges that pose barriers to closer economic cooperation. The first and probably, most disputed impediment is the EU 's arms embargo to China, since the Tienanmen protests in 1989. The European Council imposed the arms embargo, along with a suspension of military cooperation, on China as a result of the cruel suppression of the pro-democratic demonstrations in Tienanmen square. However, the Council is not clear to the EU member-states about the exact terms of the embargo, leading to misinterpetations by many member-states as to how to handle their arms trade with China

The current international system is characterized by growth in globalization hence regional integration is becoming a common phenomenon in most parts of the world. As a result of states becoming more interconnected, most of them have opted for regional integration so as to enhance trade between states thus boosting economies of the states as well as the regions as a whole. Besides free trade, regional integration has seen to it the elimination of trade barriers, free movement of goods and people across borders, regional co-operation in issues to do with peace and security within the regions among various other benefits of regional integration. One of the regions that has grown as a result of regional integration is the European Union (EU), which is an economic and political partnership composed of 28 European countries. This paper will focus on the EU and give a theoretical analysis of the Brexit while giving lessons of integration and liberalization based on the Brexit.