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towards Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has evolved over the past decade. I contend that the EU was quite receptive to Chinese OFDI at the beginning of the decade, due to both ideological leanings and the economic context of a post-crisis Europe. I then illustrate how the EU slowly adopted a more guarded and critical approach towards Chinese OFDI. This paper will focus specifically on four key issues surrounding Chinese OFDI policy: national security, technology transfers and IP theft, state support for Chinese firms, and market access, ultimately arguing that bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations and the new EU investment screening mechanism are the main policy levers being used to address these concerns. For the sake of this paper, I will use the OECD’s definition of OFDI.
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10.5642/urceu.202101.07
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2021 Ethan Kable
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Kable, Ethan
(2021)
"Buying-up Europe No More? How the European Union has Responded to the Challenges of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment,"
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union:
Vol. 2021, Article 7.
DOI: 10.5642/urceu.202101.07
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https://scholarship.claremont.edu/urceu/vol2021/iss1/7
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