An Interview with Professor Torbjörn Lodén: EU and U.S. Relations with China in Retrospect and Looking Ahead
Agust Börjesson and Torbjörn Lodén
The Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP) has for the past three years had the honor and privilege of Professor Torbjörn Lodén serving as its Head of the Stockholm China Center. With his tenure having recently drawn to a close, he sat down for an interview with ISDP Research Fellow, Agust Börjesson, to look back on how China’s relations with the U.S. and Europe have developed under his watch and to discuss what could potentially lie ahead for relations with China in the era of Sino-American rivalry.
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