China’s New Policy towards Balkan Region: New Objective, New Instruments
China’s New Policy towards Balkan Region: New Objective, New Instruments
-------- “One Belt One Road” Initiative in Balkan
Liu Zuokui
Abstract: Traditionally, in the past twenty or thirty years, China’s major objective in Balkan region is to promote the trade and investment and its behavior lacked comprehensive designs or instruments. However, since the launch of the China CEE pragmatic cooperation in 2012, especially the Bucharest Summit in 2013 and Belgrade Summit in 2014, China inputs the Balkan region new strategic contents and objective: turn this potential trade partners to an important pivot or strategic bridge of “One Belt One Road” Intitative from China to Europe. Within the China CEECs Cooperation Framework, China not only inputs a series of instruments to boost the comprehensive cooperations with Balkan countries, but also takes this cooperation as the indispensible part and engine of China EU strategic cooperation. China attached highly importance to the crisis and risks happened in Balkan regions such as Greek Debt Crisis and some untraditional threats, and has taken and will take measures jointly with Balkan countries to deal with them. During this cooperation, China and Balkan countries will have to face with the EU’s attitude and find more cooperative space with or without the EU’s support.