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# CEPA: China's Digital Silk Road keeps its grip on Balkan telecom networks
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-08-10-cepa-digital-silk-road-balkans/
- Published: 2026-08-10T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T13:56:05.000Z
- Description: CEPA's Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva writes China supplied an average 45% of Western Balkan telecom equipment imports from 2017 to 2024, arguing Chinese vendors stay entrenched in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia despite EU and US pressure.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, Policy and law, #news, #reported, #opinion, #abroad, #ai-drafted

Reported Opinion Abroad AI-drafted [CEPA (Bandwidth), 10 August 2026](https://cepa.org/article/digital-silk-road-builds-big-balkan-shadow/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** This is the author's reading of trade data, not an EU or Balkan government decision to change vendor policy.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. Think-tank tracks China's telecom dominance in EU-adjacent Balkans; no institutional action taken. [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)