CEPA's Bologa says Chinese cloud and telecom ties bind the Western Balkans

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.

Reported Opinion Abroad AI-drafted CEPA, 25 March 2026

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

Index score. 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

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