2020
DOI: 10.1177/0009445519895626
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China and the Frustrated Region: Central and Eastern Europe’s Repeating Troubles with Great Powers

Abstract: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) had few historical opportunities to interact with China, but with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the 16+1 platform, that changed dramatically in recent years. The article discusses recent development in the China-CEE relations with the aim of explaining why the CEE countries became excited about China initially, but also why this excitement led prevailingly to disappointment. It will be argued that the frustration with the EU in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis created … Show more

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“…In line with the theory of journalistic routines, the media would be reporting on what the politicians say and in this way the discourse space would be reclaimed from previously China-dominated frames to a more balanced one, and potentially even switching entirely to one dominated by the frames provided by European leaders. In line with the “affective sticking points” approach, security worries and frustrations (Turcsányi, 2020) from the lack of economic benefits are also common fantasies related to China (Gries, 2014); hence, the media and public are ready to re-adopt and push them to the forefront of the discussion, in a similar way as this article shows they did previously with the discourse on economic opportunity. Future research should prove whether these suggestions are empirically accurate and that the theories discussed here are capable of explaining the new reality.…”
Section: Conclusion and Implications For Future Researchsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…In line with the theory of journalistic routines, the media would be reporting on what the politicians say and in this way the discourse space would be reclaimed from previously China-dominated frames to a more balanced one, and potentially even switching entirely to one dominated by the frames provided by European leaders. In line with the “affective sticking points” approach, security worries and frustrations (Turcsányi, 2020) from the lack of economic benefits are also common fantasies related to China (Gries, 2014); hence, the media and public are ready to re-adopt and push them to the forefront of the discussion, in a similar way as this article shows they did previously with the discourse on economic opportunity. Future research should prove whether these suggestions are empirically accurate and that the theories discussed here are capable of explaining the new reality.…”
Section: Conclusion and Implications For Future Researchsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…From the CEE side, under the background of the economic downturn in Europe, CEE countries have chosen to strengthen production cooperation with China. As Turcsányi (2020) noted, frustration with the EU in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis created an environment in which China was, for a moment, perceived as a promising alternative.…”
Section: Results and Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The growing Chinese presence in the Western Balkans is a relatively new phenomenon, therefore, most of the articles written in the academic literature about this subject were published over the last few years. Most authors agree that the scope of the Chinese FDI in the region is limited (Jacimovic et al 2018; Matura 2019) and that the Chinese involvement in the infrastructure projects—which are ‘not investments in the strict sense’—is the most crucial component of the Chinese presence (Turcsányi 2020). In Serbia, most of the investments realised by the Chinese state-owned companies and state banks, and greenfield investments have much less weight (Dimitrijević 2017), although in recent years these kinds of investments are also on the rise ( Financial Times , 2020).…”
Section: Assessment Of Chinese Expansion and Its Limitsmentioning
confidence: 99%