TY - JOUR AU - Oliver Bräuner AB - China has largely been cut off from direct transfers of military systems and technologies since the announcement of the EU arms embargo in 1989. Nevertheless, the EU and its member states remain a major source of high technologies for China, namely, by means of trade, investment, and scientific cooperation. BT - Cambridge University Press (CUP) DA - 2013-12 DO - 10.1017/S1598240800008304 N1 - This is mainly because the EU-China relationship continues to be dominated by the economic interests of individual member states, both in trade and increasingly in investments. Furthermore, due to a lack of direct security interests in the Asia-Pacific, Europeans do not generally see China as a security threat or a strategic competitor. Therefore, the EU has so far failed to develop a strategic approach toward the potential security implications of transfers of European militarily sensitive technologies that goes beyond the existing arms embargo and currently lacks effective mechanisms to control the flow of such technologies to China. N2 - China has largely been cut off from direct transfers of military systems and technologies since the announcement of the EU arms embargo in 1989. Nevertheless, the EU and its member states remain a major source of high technologies for China, namely, by means of trade, investment, and scientific cooperation. PY - 2013 T2 - Cambridge University Press (CUP) TI - Beyond the Arms Embargo: EU Transfers of Defense and Dual-Use Technologies to China UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-east-asian-studies/article/beyond-the-arms-embargo-eu-transfers-of-defense-and-dualuse-technologies-to-china/F19A5322340288CEF7C76E85A3760CD6 SN - 1598-2408 ER -