What’s next for EU-China relations?

Speaker: Roland Vogt, Associate Professor, the University of Hong Kong

Time: 14.00-15.30pm, June 5^th, 2026

Venue: Room 324, Wenke Building, Fudan University

Host:Dr. YAN Shaohua, Deputy Director, Center for China-Europe Relations, Fudan University

Discussants:

Prof. Thomas Christiansen, Professor at LUISS School of Government & Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration

Prof. Ding Chun, Director, Center for European Studies, Fudan University & President of Shanghai Institute of European Studies

Assoc. Prof. Jian Junbo, Director, Center for China-Europe Relations, Fudan University

Roland Vogt is Associate Professor of Global and Ares Studies (European Studies) at the University of Hong Kong. His research concentrates on contemporary European diplomacy and Europe's relations with China, Asia and the Global South more broadly, as well as security issues. He is currently writing a monograph on Europe coming to terms with a more powerful Asia. He is the author of Personal Diplomacy. Political Leadership and Critical Junctures of European Integration (Routledge, 2017), European National Identities. Elements. Transitions. Conflicts (edited with W. Cristaudo and A. Leutzsch, Routledge, 2014) and Europe and China: Strategic Partners or Rivals? (Hong Kong University Press, 2012) among numerous journal articles. He was a fellow at the University of Cambridge (Hughes Hall) in 2017, the University of Queensland in 2022 and at the University of Uppsala in 2024.

Abstract: EU-China relations have undergone a rapid and profound transformation as a result of major geopolitical, economic and technological shifts. This talk examines the opportunities and limitations of a new pattern of engagement involving different actors, new challenges and a degradation of old expectations about one another.