{"id":11989,"date":"2015-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/is-the-czech-republic-chinas-new-bridge-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T22:00:00","slug":"is-the-czech-republic-chinas-new-bridge-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/is-the-czech-republic-chinas-new-bridge-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Czech Republic China&#8217;s New \u2018Bridge to Europe\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Czech Republic is drawing closer to China. Is this a new normal or a temporary golden age?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The label of China\u2019s \u201cbridge to Europe\u201d has become something of a holy grail. Though no one clearly knows what that would entail, the phrase became hyped during the acceleration of Chinese relations with the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries after the global financial crisis, and especially after opening up of the so-called 16+1 platform in 2011-2012. With recent news about flourishing Czech relations with China and announcements of various Chinese FDI in the country, the question might be whether the Czech Republic is the new (or yet another) Chinese \u201cbridge to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interesting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2015\/09\/is-the-czech-republic-chinas-new-bridge-to-europe\/\">article\u00a0<\/a>written by Richard Q. Turcsanyi and published on 12th September 2015 by The Diplomat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Czech Republic is drawing closer to China. Is this a new normal or a temporary golden age? The label of China\u2019s \u201cbridge to Europe\u201d has become something of a holy grail. Though no one clearly knows what that would entail, the phrase became hyped during the acceleration of Chinese relations with the Central and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11990,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[664],"news_tag":[699],"class_list":["post-11989","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-newstibet-europe-news","news_tag-chinese-influence-and-propaganda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is the Czech Republic China&#039;s New \u2018Bridge to Europe\u2019? - Campaign for Tibet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/is-the-czech-republic-chinas-new-bridge-to-europe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is the Czech Republic China&#039;s New \u2018Bridge to Europe\u2019? - Campaign for Tibet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Czech Republic is drawing closer to China. 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