News Snapshot:
China wants to extend its influence in Central and Eastern Europe. Some on the EU’s eastern wing are calling for resistance to what is being labeled China’s corrosive capital, but others say it’s a storm in a tea cup. More Hawkish observers argue that China’s foreign investments are — by definition — corrupting, with a corrosive influence on smaller, often only nominally democratic and market-based nations, including those on the eastern periphery of the European Union (EU). Others are less convinced Chinese investment represents a genuine threat. The EU members in Eastern Europe stand at a crossroads in their relations...
