China promotes its ‘win-win cooperation’ based on economics. Others claim it to be a political move to influence less developed countries. Besides this general ideological dispute, the genreal concept has to be questioned.
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Tag: 16+1
Concurrence and Cohesion – The Balkan and Baltic States in China’s ’16+1′ Format
The Chinese charm offensive of ’16+1′ in Central and South-Eastern Europe has led to newly gained self-confidence for a region that was long time subject to either foreign rule or peripheral neglect.
This analysis assesses the roles played by EU and non-EU members inside the grouping by comparing the interacting roles of two smaller European regions – the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and the Western Balkan States (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia) with Beijing.
A Future in the East? – Chances and Challenges for Sino-European Cooperation
With the United Kingdom leaving the European Union and Donald Trump proclaiming his ‘America First’ policy, the Western world has experienced a clear shift towards post-multilateralism. In these difficult times for the traditional trans-Atlantic partnership another great power is rolling out a new map: China.
The following paper addresses the question whether the New Silk Road can be more advantageous for an inner-European cohesion and if the previous work has changed the perspective on Europe towards global South-South relations.