China's foreign policy in recent years has focused on its relationship with the European Union. While economic and trade relations are important, the United Kingdom pays more attention to China's strategic moves and is more interventionist on issues like Taiwan and Hong Kong compared to other EU countries due to British imperial traditions. For China to develop an effective strategy with the EU, it must understand the EU's interests and gradually address strategic concerns through trade and economic cooperation while the EU also recognizes China is undergoing a transition period.

1. Major Foreign Policy/ies in the past five/ten years<br />http://mt.china-embassy.org/eng/xwdt/t559071.htm<br />China and its Foreign Policy<br />In the last year, China promulgated the quot;
Anti-Secession Lawquot;
, the U.S. and EU took the opportunity to begin a strategic dialogue. Such coordination is difficult to make EU lift embargo on China. China strategy in the European Union, the United Kingdom act special. Although Britain has to give top priority to economic and trade relations with China, but compared to other EU countries, the United Kingdom more attention to China strategy. Years with Britain's international behavior is a clear indication of this. The British imperial tradition with that tradition to intervene in international affairs. At the same time that the British still have the ability to intervene in world affairs. These factors indicate that the UK than in other EU countries will be concerned about China's strategic moves, and even showing the interventionist tendencies. This tendency often manifested in the UK on issues such as concern Taiwan and Hong Kong. Therefore, contacts with China, especially economic and trade exchanges at the same time, we must use a variety of ways to exert influence on China so that China may be moving in the desired direction of the West, namely the internal and external affairs, political democratization, comprehensive and West cooperation. It is in this general perception, the democracy and human rights issues are often mixed in the EU trade and economic relations and strategic relationships. For China, the European Union to develop effective strategies, and the European Union has a substantial relationship to the interests of the EU must have a clear understanding of cognition. And trade and economic relations with the EU to gradually digest the strategic concern. EU in the quot;
uncertainty of China,quot;
must also be concerned about, because the EU recognition of its overall China policy toward China. China itself is in a big transition, fear of the outside world is also excusable. In this context, the strategic dialogue between China and the EU are particularly important.<br />