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The UK's strategic partnership with China beyond Brexit: economic opportunities facing political constraints
- Abstract:
- This analysis examines the opportunities and challenges facing the United Kingdom (UK) government in building a closer economic partnership with China beyond Brexit. While showing how the goals of each side overlap in key areas of mutual interest, evidence is presented to explain how fundamental imbalances persist in trade and investment relations due to China’s economic management system. The authors further argue that political constraints imposed on the UK by the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) as economic partners will constrain the British government’s room for manoeuvre when negotiating with the Chinese. The analysis identifies potential modalities for achieving some improvement in UK-China bilateral links by drawing on the outcome of the Switzerland-China Free Trade Agreement but concludes that political factors will continue to limit outcomes and that a major transformation of UK-China economic relations is not a realistic prospect for the foreseeable future.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/1868102619858783
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- SAGE Publications
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- Journal of Current Chinese Affairs More from this journal
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 106-121
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-05-31
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1868-4874
- ISSN:
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1868-1026
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- Irwin Crookes and Farnell
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- 2019
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- Copyright © 2019 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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