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'From Europe's perspective, the Taiwan issue has already become "one of the most important factors" shaping EU-China relations, according to Frans-Paul van der Putten, a China expert based in the Netherlands. He warned that a potential future conflict between Beijing and Washington over Taiwan – one that could draw in most EU member states as Nato...

From the target of foreign imperialism to leading geopolitical actor on the global stage, how has China become the superpower it is today? In this interview Frans-Paul van der Putten, author of China Resurrected, reveals which events in the last 200 years have shaped this country's political identity, why the West tends to underestimate Chinese...

Toen de Chinese keizer Qianlong in 1792 een brief kreeg van de Britse koning George III die meer handel wilde drijven, schreef hij terug dat China daar geen behoefte aan had omdat het hemelse rijk "alle dingen al in overvloed had". China zag niet dat de mondiale machtsverhoudingen in zijn nadeel waren verschoven omdat het Westen enorme...