Chinese will invest mainly in Balkan transit, energy
As the global centre of gravity shifts, the Western Balkans is exploring what it can get from China
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- Staging-post to EU
- Other advantages
- Openness to China
- Serbian connection
- Calculating the costs
- Europe looks on
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_350.jpg "Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the December 2014 Belgrade summit with 16 Central-East European states, which announced a new Chinese-built Belgrade-Budapest rail link (Reuters/Djordje Kojadinovic)")