‘Go With The Devil You Don’t Know’? Latvians Still Believe In Economic Cooperation With China – Analysis


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China’s embassy in Latvia. Photo Credit: China Embassy in Latvia By Published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute By Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova* (FPRI) — The Baltic countries received international attention for their snub of China’s February “17+1” online summit, chaired by President Xi Jinping. By sending lower-level ministers instead of heads of state, they signaled a joint Lithuanian, Estonian and Latvian turn away from China’s multilateral formats. This turn, however, has not yet completely found its way into Latvian public opinion. Though Latvians on the whole demonstrate Euro-optimism and have negative responses to China when it comes to human rights...