EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China

Joachim Schild holds a Chair of Comparative Politics at Trier University. His research focusses on Franco-German relations in the European Union, French European Policy, and the political economy of European integration. He is the co-author (with Ulrich Krotz) of Shaping Europe: France, Germany, and Embedded Bilateralism from the Elysée Treaty to Twenty-First Century Politics (2013) and co-editor (with David Howarth) of The Difficult Construction of European Banking Union (Routledge, 2020).Dirk H. Schmidt is a tenured Senior Lecturer at the Chair for Comparative Government and Political Economy of China at Trier University. His main research interests are Chinese foreign policy, Chinese foreign economic relations and China-Taiwan relations. He is co-author (with Sebastian Heilmann) of China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations. An Unconventional Global Power (2014) and has contributed several chapters to China's Political System (edited by Sebastian Heilmann, 2017).