http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210105-223547-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/dancing-with-the-dragon/ Dancing with the Dragon Krajewski, Markus eng 2021-01-05 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CAI China EU trade Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 30 December 2020, the EU Commission announced that the EU and China “in principle” concluded the negotiations on a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). So far, there has only been a limited assessment of the CAI from a human rights perspective which is problematic considering recent political developments in China. This leads to the question: How does the CAI measure against the standards of the constitutional law of the EU relating to its external relations? Moreover, it is doubtful that the agreement will meet the requirements prescribed by the European Parliament in this regard.