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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 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

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

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