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      "id": 103379,
      "date": "1996-06-21",
      "retrieved": "2016-05-24T21:02:14.273941",
      "title": "Europe and China -- An Emerging Relationship",
      "summary": "Reflecting in large part European concern to become more closely linked with China's rising\nmarket,\nthe 16-member European Union (EU) has been unusually active in the past few years in building ties\nwith Beijing. This report briefly reviews major policy pronouncements, high-level exchanges and\nlimited assistance programs, backed by EU-China trade flows that have more than tripled over the\npast decade. Prospects for increased trade and economic interchange appear good, but broader\npolitical and security interaction remains constrained by the relatively low priority Beijing assigns\nto relations with Europe, organizational and institutional limitations in the EU and among its\nmembers, and divergence in EU-Chinese views on the importance of conformity to internationally\naccepted norms regrading trade practices, human rights, proliferation, the use of military force and\nother matters. \n The report notes that U.S. policy concerns about the emerging European-Chinese relationship\nare mixed. U.S. policy makers sometimes complain that the combination of EU eagerness to trade\nwith China and its relatively low-keyed posture on human rights, use of force, trade practices and\nother disputes with China complicates more forthright U.S. efforts to press China to conform better\nto these internationally accepted norms. Including information up to mid-1996, this report will not\nbe updated.",
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  "topics": [
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "Intelligence and National Security",
    "National Defense"
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