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The European Union has tried for a long time to socialize China into the rules-based international order, but without much success. As a result, the EU's China policy has taken a realist turn and adapts to China's realist and power-centered foreign policy. The EU's realist turn is analyzed in three major areas of the EU-China relationship: human rights, Taiwan, and trade. In the area of human rights, the EU's focus has shifted to a global competition with China over the universality of human rights. The EU has also increased support for Taiwan and for maintaining the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. In its external trade policy, the EU made first steps to strengthen its economic security and to reduce its dependence on China.

Money is distributed very unequally in the US and this unequal distribution gives wealthy citizens through high campaign donations more influence on politics than other citizens. Robert Dahl's egalitarian conception of democracy considers this diminishing political equality as a problem for the US democracy. Two possibilities would restrict the growing influence of money on US politics: strict limitations of campaign donations or a more equal distribution of wealth and opportunities. Both possibilities are difficult to implement due to legal and political constraints. A third, rarely discussed, possibility would be to strengthen the equal voice of the citizens in the US political system. The article will discuss some propositions in this area. Adapted from the source document.