China charts a path into European science

With worries circulating through the corridors of Brussels, European leaders voted in February to come up with new procedures for screening investments in Europe — a move widely regarded as a direct response to China’s purchase of Europe’s leading robotics company, KUKA in Augsburg, Germany, in 2016. The 16+1 organization is more formally known as the Cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European Countries, or China–CEEC, and it coordinates many of China’s BRI ambitions in Europe. Among European nations, Hungary is arguably the most active in BRI activities, describing itself as “China’s number one economic partner in central Europe”.

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