He added that "perhaps the main new element in the relationship is that I think China's investment in the Netherlands is going to grow."
From his point of view, the Netherlands plays a unique role in economic cooperation with China, in a sense that the whole Europe can share the same bright future.
"China and the European Union are natural economic partners... The Netherlands would like to regard itself as the gateway to Europe. I think this is true and the Netherlands will remain an important element in European-Chinese economic relations in the future," he said.
From the global perspective, "the rising of China has a very important impact on international relations," Van der Putten pointed out, "China has to adapt to the international system but the rest of the world also has to adapt to China."
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