Central and Eastern Europe in Relation to China’s Strategic Space
The Fizzling Out of a Ten-Year Campaign

Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova
December 21, 2023

Una Aleksandra Berzina-Cerenkova looks back on the last decade of China’s engagement with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes the outcomes of its initial geopolitical ambition of adding CEE countries to its strategic space. She concludes by arguing that China’s effort to include CEE countries in its strategic space has produced mixed outcomes.

Read the essay on the “Mapping China’s Strategic Space” website.