China inked a free trade agreement (FTA) with Switzerland over the weekend, which will largely benefit Chinese customers through tariff reductions on Swiss imports. 
But beyond cheaper Swiss watches, I think there is still much the country can gain from this deal.
Striking such an agreement in the geographic heart of Europe may prompt other Europea......

The ongoing economic crisis that landed Europe in plight has definitely an impact on China in the following ten aspects, half of which are positive with the other half negative:
First of all comes the negative ones:
First, the current European economic crisis has not only increased the volatility and uncertainty of the world economy but also dragge......

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In the cartoon, the troika of the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank, are depicted as ruthless butchers: knives in hand, slicing meat off of the debt countries. "The solution is obvious," they say. "The patient needs more (fiscal) cuts!"

Negative effects stemming from the fiscal cuts as demanded by the troika for Greece and other debt count......

The ancient Greek playwright Sophocles once wrote, "No one likes a messenger who brings bad news." Like it or not, bad news came to Greece again on June 13. Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's credit rating, causing upheaval in the financial market in Europe and elsewhere. According to the Financial Times, Greece is now the lowest-rated sovereign......

When somebody is sick, say, with a high fever, the doctor needs to correctly diagnose the cause(s) of the illness before he can prescribe the right medicine. Otherwise, the patient may not recover. For many years the world economy has been sick with a symptom called imbalance. Some economists say that this imbalance resulted in the global financial......

Except the political parties reorganizing coalitions in EP, the European election also means the new generation of European institutions’ birth which made the election more important. Now we have known for sure the coming President of European Commission and European Parliament, Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz. It will take one more month to......

Wen Jiabao the Prime Minister of People's Republic of China and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the start of an EU China High level cultural forum at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 6 Ocotber 2010, ahead of a European-China summit.| EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET
Bilateral trade volume between China and the European u......

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---Translated by Zhao Chen 
Summary: Under the joint efforts, Chinese researchers have made remarkable progress in European politics study since the new century. This article is to introduce the domestic researches during this period from three aspects: European Union politics, politics of member states, and party politics. On EU politics, it will ......