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# CEPA's Bologa says Chinese cloud and telecom ties bind the Western Balkans
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-03-25-cepa-china-wiring-western-balkans/
- Published: 2026-03-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:55:32.000Z
- Description: CEPA's Anda Bologa writes that Chinese loans, telecoms, surveillance and cloud infrastructure deals across the Western Balkans, including a Montenegro university's tie to a sanctioned Jinan supercomputing centre, lock in vendors and complicate EU accession.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #opinion, #abroad, #ai-drafted

Reported Opinion Abroad AI-drafted [CEPA, 25 March 2026](https://cepa.org/article/china-is-wiring-the-western-balkans/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the EU or any Balkan government has acted to unwind these dependencies.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Opinion; no EU action taken, scale reflects several Western Balkan states' infrastructure ties. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)