Angela Stanzel is a Policy Fellow for the Asia and China Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Alongside China’s history, politics and economics, her research focuses on East and South Asia’s foreign and security policy. She earned her Ph.D. in Sinology at Freie Universität Berlin, conducting a research about China-Pakistan relations. Her recent publications include contributions to the October 2014 edition of China Analysis “China and Global Crises: The “Culture of Reluctance”, the policy brief After “AfPak”: Reframing Europe’s Pakistan policy (published in September 2014), and commentaries such as Interpreting Xi’s Europe Visit (April 2014).