Event report

Entitled Europe in the World: Europe's Place in Asia’s Century, the talk focused on "Asian Century”, referred to also as "China's Century". The term originates from a view of world history claiming that while the nineteenth century was the “European Century”, and the twentieth was the “American Century”, the current century is the “Asian Century”. Almost the whole of Asia is in a state of upward change that is predicted to revolutionize the international system. However, there is no denying that China is the main political, economic and cultural motor of Asia and the rest of the world. China is now the EU's second-biggest trading partner after the USA and the EU is China's biggest trading partner. The talk was followed by an interesting Q&A with the audience present.