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Beijing is quietly challenging Brussels

21 April 2021

9:00 PM

21 April 2021

9:00 PM

The new agreement between China and the US on climate change, announced this week, contained the usual worthy overtures. Both nations reasserted their commitment to fighting the ‘climate crisis’ by ‘co-operating with each other and with other countries.’ But can the West really take the Chinese Communist party at its word?

Judging by Beijing’s activity in the Western Balkans, the answer is a resounding no.

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