Paper Titles & Abstracts

In 2012, the 18th National Congress of Communist Party ofChina gathered great attraction worldwide. Without any surprises, Mr.XI Jinping took the office. China is the world second largest economy,and it has diplomatic relations with 174 countries, so what the newdirections and changes will be under taken by the new leadership?China has expanded national interests to not only developmentcountries, such as EU and US, but also to many developing countries,which cased a lot of debates in recent years. EU as the biggest aiddonor and a significant actor in development, shares common interestswith China, as well as disagreements. How will the new leadership ofChina be able to balance the national interests and externalpressures? In 2013, Europe will hold important elections. What willthe EU and China's new leaders do to improve EU-China diplomaticrelations? This paper is part of author's PhD thesis, and it focuseson the new trend for the EU-China diplomatic relations afterleadership change, because both EU and China are entering a bright newfuture with changing of the world order. Also, this paper will examineand compare the changes of China and EU's development policy under thenew leadership.