The construction of a 42-kilometer stretch of highway financed by China, never completed and economically unprofitable, jeopardizes the sovereignty of this small Balkan state, explains the Serbian weekly, Time.
There are few board games in which luck plays no role and whose final result depends only on the intelligence of the players: chess and go, this Chinese tactical and strategic game more than twenty-five years old. centuries. In Chinese it is called weiqi, or wei-ch’i, literally “encirclement game”. Indeed, the principle of go implies the long-term strategic encirclement of the adversary. It is a slow game, which can last for several days.
Inspired by the principles of this ancient game, the People’s Republic of China presented in 2012 the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, also known as “new silk roads”. It is an economic and social project with a global aim likely to shape a new world order in the coming decades through investments in infrastructure: roads, railways, bridges, ports, etc.
Montenegro found itself on the road to China’s strategic positioning in Europe, within the framework of the “16 + 1” cooperation mechanism, bringing together the states of Central and Eastern Europe. China has indeed found in Montenegro an ideal partner to launch its first infrastructure projects in South-Eastern Europe. This small country of 620,000 inhabitants suffers from an underdeveloped road infrastructure, and its access to EU structural funds is made difficult due to its low economic capacity to meet the requirements and rules of banks and funds. European development. An underdeveloped and undiversified economy increases the risks for investments.
Sovereignty at risk
At the end of February 2014, the government of Montenegro, headed
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