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Confrontations between China and the United States are obviously continuing to increase under the presidency of Joe Biden. American concerns about the rise of China and its effects on the existing global order, a more assertive Chinese foreign policy and growing European concerns about decoupling are the basic ingredients for an ever more critical assessment of policies and intentions. What are the prospects for Sino-US relations under a new American administration and what will be the role of the EU?

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider held a chair in Chinese politics and international relations at Freie Universität Berlin until October 2020. Between 2003 and 2016, he served as Otto Wolff Director of the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Since 2014, he is one of the two Deans of Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance, Zeit Foundation, Hamburg. In 2017, he joined Berlin Global Advisors (BGA), a Global Risk Consulting Company, as a Partner. Between 1995 and 1998, he was Professor of International Relations at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität in Mainz. After moving to Freie Universität Berlin in October 1998, he was Managing Director of the Freie Universität’s Otto Suhr Institute from October 1999 to March 2001 and served as Dean of the Department of Political and Social Sciences from 2001 to 2003. 

Eberhard Sandschneider‘s books include Globale Rivalen: Chinas unheimlicher Aufstieg und die Ohnmacht des Westens (Global Rivals: China’s Uncanny Rise and the Helplessness of the West, 2008) and Der erfolgreiche Abstieg Europas: Heute Macht abgeben um morgen zu gewinnen (Europe’s Successful Descent: Giving Away Power Today in Order to Win Tomorrow, 2011). He was promoted to full professor with a project on “The Stability and Transformation of Political Systems” (1993) and wrote his doctoral dissertation on “Military and Politics in the People’s Republic of China 1969-1986” (1986). He graduated from the Saar University in 1981 in English language and literature, classical philology, and political science.

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