There was a special lecture held by Professor Thomas Christiansen from the Maastricht University on November 11th. The lecture covered characteristics between two grand actors in the international field of politics, the EU and China, mainly with the perspectives from the European countries. As one of the Union's core strategic partners, China has gradually gained European leaders' attention. The long ties between the two continents have started from the economic field - the trade partners per se - for the EU and China became surely the big economic actors in the global economic market. Although the economic connections still influence both actors the most, the hybrid characteristic of the Union is relatively influential, causing the tensions and relaxations.