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Review Jun 15, 2022

China review 2022-3

Raigirdas Boruta
Summary

10 years ago, on 26 April 2012, the first summit between China and 16 CEE (Central and Eastern European) countries took place in Warsaw, launching the “16 + 1” format for China’s cooperation with the region. The permament secretariat of the format was established at the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the meeting, the then Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao presented the document “China’s Twelve Measures for Promoting Friendly Cooperation with Central and Eastern European Countries”1. The statement was received with great positivity and enthusiasm. The economic aspect of the statement was very encouraging and consisted of the following plans:

  • creating a special USD 10 billion credit line for soft loans for cooperation projects in the fields of infrastructure, high technology and the green economy;
  • promoting active cooperation to increase total trade turnover by USD 100 billion by 2015;
  • Establishment of a China-CEE Investment Fund with plans to raise USD 500 million in the first phase.
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Raigirdas Boruta

GSSC Associate Expert and Chief Policy Analyst at the Government Strategic Analysis Center (STRATA). Since 2021, he has been a PhD candidate at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. In 2023, Boruta was a visiting fellow at National Chengchi University in Taiwan under the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Taiwan Fellowship programme. He holds an MA in International Relations from Sichuan University, China, and a BA in East Asian Studies with a focus on China from the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom. His research focuses on the foreign and domestic policies of China and Taiwan, as well as cross-Strait relations, with particular attention to the dynamics of China–ASEAN relations and the strategic competition between Beijing and Taipei in Central and Eastern Europe.