Gudrun Wacker
Senior Researcher, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Gudrun Wacker is Senior Researcher of Pangoal Institution, and Senior Researcher of German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Her field of Research includes Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Chinese Domestic Politics, EU-China Relations,
Feb 19, 2016
Chinese initiatives like “One Belt, One Road” are intentionally open and flexible; no uniform rules or norms are set from the beginning. One of the major challenges for the EU and European countries in the cooperation with China stems from this openness or vagueness, and from doubts about rules that might be applied differently in global and regional contexts.