From Serbia to Ukraine, how Russia and China maneuver in Eastern Europe
Giuseppe Gagliano's article on the moves of Russia and China in Eastern Europe
It is difficult to deny how the Russian and Chinese presence is becoming more and more pervasive and widespread in the heart of Eastern Europe.
The umpteenth demonstration is given by the fact that on May 3 the president of Serbia met with both the Chinese representative in Belgrade Chen Bo and the Russian ambassador to Serbia, Aleksandr Bozan Kharchenko.
If these two nations represent a disturbing presence for the Atlantic alliance, the same cannot be said for the Serbian president given that Chinese investments are around 10 billion while those of Russia around 4 billion.
As for Russia, its investments are mainly concentrated in the oil and gas sector: in fact, the main shareholder of the Serbian multinational Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) is Gazprom Neft.
Secondly, another important aspect of this synergy is represented by the BAlkan Stream gas pipeline.
As for China, we have already had occasion to underline how Serbia represents the Trojan horse to allow the Dragon to enter Europe.
Regarding the still unstable political situation between Ukraine and Russia, this has had some very important developments on Thursday 6 May when there was a meeting between the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken and the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. , in Kiev.
The issues addressed by the two politicians have been discounted: security in the Donbass and in the Black Sea and Azov Sea areas, Nord Stream 2 and above all the reforms needed to be implemented in Ukraine to join NATO.
In this regard, beyond the obvious request by the US Secretary of State in relation to the internal policy reforms that must be implemented to allow Ukraine to fully enter NATO, it is clear that if an eventuality of this nature , tensions with Russia would not only have a very significant increase but could constitute the premise for a conflict.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/dalla-serbia-allucraina-come-manovrano-russia-e-cina-nelleuropa-dellest/ on Sat, 08 May 2021 07:32:35 +0000.