Kína geopolitikai szerepe a Kelet-Közép-Európai régióban

Absztrakt

In 2018, China celebrated the 40th anniversary of the “Reform and Opening” policy. 40 years ago, China began to build the new international relationships and also supported Chinese companies to internationalize, Chinese students to go abroad to study.
In 2019, China celebrated the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and also celebrated the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations establishment with several Central and Eastern European countries. Since 1949, China had friendly relations with the countries of the CEE region, but the formal multilateral relations, the 16+1 cooperation were only established in 2012, while other multilateral cooperation was established in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Western Europe view China's regional expansion in Central and Eastern Europe with concern, refer to the 16+1 cooperation as a Trojan horse, fear of dividing Europe or even buying political influence.
In my study, I compare China-CEE cooperation with other multilateral relations in terms of Chinese FDI and Chinese foreign policy in order to consider 16+1 cooperation in the multilateral relations system of China. Furthermore, I compare the amount of Chinese FDI to European countries in order to quantify the Chinese push in the CEE region. With these comparisons, I am looking for the answer to what is really a concern about China’s presence in the region and how important the China-CEE cooperation for China.