Instrumental and Normative Dimensions of the Sino-Serbian Partnership: Between Transactional Cooperation and Ironclad Friendship
Year: 2025

In recent decades, China and Serbia have developed a relationship that combines pragmatic cooperation with a shared commitment to key principles and norms of international conduct, and what both sides describe as an 'ironclad friendship.'This paper examines the instrumental and principal-based dimensions of the Sino-Serbian partnership, arguing that while strategic and economic interests drive bilateral cooperation, shared normative commitments to the principles of sovereignty and non-interferen