Sino-European Security relations: The challenges ahead

The rise of global security challenges that cannot be properly tackled by any one country alone has stressed the importance of cooperation between states, or state like entities. The cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) appears to be promising since non-traditional security threats such as energy and environmental security, international terrorism, climate change, drugs and human trafficking, modern piracy, illegal immigration or pandemics are at the core of the security notions of both the EU and the PRC. These multiform challenges are reshaping countries’ priorities and fostering interstate cooperation.