China "spreads its tentacles" everywhere in Europe, after Greece, it also puts Serbia in the "debt trap", this is what is hidden behind Xi Jinping's visit and Beijing's billion euro investments

Chinese diplomacy is old, currently the most widespread in the world, which is a confirmation of the global power and influence that Beijing possesses, but also of the implementation of national imperatives: the more countries DO agree with the idea of ??creating a new international order that will reject American hegemony and, as they say, the policy of pressure that Washington implemented. The goal is to create a multilateral order that would respect traditional, cultural diversity, which should really be welcomed, but the difficulty arises when we look at how the People's Republic of China sees the implementation of this order, writes the Croatian media "Jutarnji List", which has devoted a long article to Xi Jinping's visit to Serbia, relations between the two countries and Beijing's hidden goals.

Serbia like Greece

In the South China Sea, it drew a line of 9 points, which, according to Beijing's interpretation, define the area of ??Chinese sovereignty. The Chinese leadership does not care what the other countries in the area think about it, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, which if they accepted that model, would be deprived of the use of the sea rich in fish and the seabed where there is . oil, gas and various metals. The picture is clear, the People's Republic of China, which still uses the historical name Middle Kingdom (Zhongguo), believes that other, smaller Asian countries must show respect to it and recognize that Beijing's interests are paramount, the interests of others are secondary. Greece experienced firsthand what this whole strategy looks like in Europe, after China bought most of the port of Piraeus, it asked Athens to block initiatives in the EU Council that were critical of China, such as human rights and abuse of the Uyghur Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, East Turkestan. Athens obeyed, the resolutions were not accepted.

China's intentions

After five years, Xi visited Europe again, a long period because he was very afraid of Covid, so he stayed in his palaces, although he went to visit Russia last year before the EU. He thus determined the hierarchy of importance, Moscow is in the first place. He chose France, whose president Emmanuel Macron does not hide his desire to be the new European leader, which was not met with excessive enthusiasm in Rome or Berlin. The strategists in Beijing think well that if they "take" Macron on their side, we can cause unrest and division within the EU, writes "Jutarnji List". That's the goal. For this, they will conclude a series of business agreements and support French wishes.

"Trap" for Belgrade

After Paris, Xi goes to Belgrade and Budapest, where he is welcomed as a best friend with whom he shares ideological principles of rejection of liberal democracy, so Xi tells the EU that they already have their man in their ranks, the prime minister Hungarian Viktor Orbán, that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is loyal to him and that both wholeheartedly support Russia and its aggression. China invests heavily in Serbia, but, as independent analysts there say, it is actually not a "classic" investment, like the countries of the European Union, but actually a loan, which is not so easy to get. returned. Independent Serbian analysts warn that China does not actually invest, but instead lends, and Chinese companies and Chinese workers do the work anyway. All investments put Serbia in debt for 18 billion new euros.

Alert in the EU

The question is how Brussels will react. Because of such relations with China and Russia, there is growing skepticism in Europe towards Serbia's EU membership, where they believe that they have had enough of seeing Budapest as a Russian-Chinese Trojan horse and do not need another one. Croatian media writes. It will take skill and ability to contain this China that openly spies, intimidates, uses non-trade practices, makes it difficult for European companies to enter its market and strongly wants to create a divide within the EU and the US .