For the EU, China is increasingly becoming a third country like any other. Obviously, it is unique, due to its size, its history and civilisation. Since Marco Polo, China has been seen in Europe as a mysterious and distant entity from where Europe, in particular, imported silk, porcelain and acupuncture. Its thundering entry onto the industrial production scene also created other myths: firstly, that of China being a paradise for the relocation of American and European business activity, and...