EU-China investment deal: a ‘values-based’ relationship?
The year-end conclusion of the EU-China investment deal was followed by a wave of arrests of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong—not a good look.
politics, economy and employment & labour
Vittorio Emanuele Parsi is an international relations professor and director of the Advanced School in Economics and International Relations (ASERI) at the Università Cattolica of Milan, author of Vulnerable: How the Pandemic Will Change the World and a columnist for Il Messaggero. He is commander of the reserve of the Italian Navy and has joined several peacekeeping missions in the middle east and search-and-rescue missions in the Mediterranean. Valerio Alfonso Bruno is a political analyst and senior fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right, also involved with ASERI and the Observatoire de la Finance in Geneva.
The year-end conclusion of the EU-China investment deal was followed by a wave of arrests of pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong—not a good look.
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