自從1994年歐盟開始重視亞洲市場,並且提出〈邁向亞洲新戰略〉之後,便積極與中國、東協進行政治、經濟上的互動與交流。同樣的,東協基於戰略因素,以及地緣政治的效應,也試圖想與歐盟、中國建立政經關係。再者,中國方面也是希望透過與歐盟的交流,提昇自己的技術,藉由與東協的交流,來增加自己對東南亞地區的影響力,因此也樂意與東協、歐盟建立關係。可是在實際的合作交流過程中,彼此會因為不同的文化、意識型態、價值觀的差異,反而阻礙彼此之間的關係,同時也影響彼此的互信機制。因此本文嘗試運用三角關係來分析歐盟、東協與中國在1990年以後之彼此關係,同時亦運用歷史分析途徑,彙整從冷戰結束後迄今的三角關係變化,進而觀察這三者之間的互動與變化。
Since 1994, the European Union began to attach importance to the Asian market, and made ”Towards a New Asia Strategy”, the then actively working with China, ASEAN to conduct political and economic interaction and communication. Similarly, ASEAN based on the strategic factors, as well as the geopolitical effects, also trying to do with the European Union, China has established political and economic relations. Furthermore, China is also the hope that through the exchanges with the European Union to upgrade their technology, through exchange with ASEAN, to increase his own influence on the Southeast Asian region, so they are pleased with the ASEAN, the European Union to build relationships. But in the actual process of cooperation and exchange with each other because of different cultures, ideologies, values differences, but hindered the relationship between them, but also affect the mutual trust mechanism. Therefore, this article attempts to analyze the triangularity between the use of the European Union, ASEAN and China in 1990, after the mutual relations, but also the use of historical analysis of ways to compile to date from the post-Cold War changes in the triangular relationship, and then observe the interaction between these three and changes.