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China and Europe have seen strengthened ties, featuring frequent high level visits of European leaders to China. Since the beginning of the year, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had toured to China. Why have China-Europe relations become so crucial? Thomas Pauken II., the host of China Trends’ had recently spoken to Raphael Zumsteg-Yuan, a Swiss national living in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality and the legal manager of SinoSwiss Technopark there to discuss the China-Europe ties and exchanges in his own eyes.

Anthony Carty, a British scholar on international law, discovered that western history supports China’s sovereignty over the disputed islands in the South China Sea after conducting rigorous research on the national archives from Britain, France and the United States. In this episode of China Trends, Professor Carty has shared his insights on the South China Sea with our host, Tom Pauken II.