Political and Economic Activities of the PRC on the Balkan Peninsula Romania: A Case Study
Journal: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego eBooks
Year: 2020

The recent growing political and economic presence of the People’s Republic of China on the Balkan Peninsula draws more and more attention from the European Union, the United States, and Japan, as well as Russia and Turkey. The institutionalized expression of Chinese interest in the Central and Eastern Europe region is the 16+1 format launched in Warsaw in 2012 by the then Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, which, by definition, should be a multilateral platform for cooperation between the coun