Untapped trilateralism: Common economic and security interests of the European Union, the United States and China

Collectively, the European Union, China and the United States constitute over half of global GDP. They are the three great engines of the global economy, with a shared population of over 2 billion.

In this study, Bates Gill and Andrew Small analyse how the three relate to each other, and make suggestions about the areas where they might best interact more deeply in the future, and in which ways.