China and Europe: What Was It? The Rise and Crumbling of the ‘16+1’ Format

... projects and openly criticizes China's foreign policy, and Romania, which has suspended its projects and the participation of Chinese companies in active tenders. Poland, which is politically close to the Baltic countries, is the main beneficiary in CEE of China's projects to build railways and increase container traffic to Europe. President Duda visited the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022 to personally discuss the prospects of joint projects, and it is in Warsaw that the 14+1 ...