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CEPA: China's Digital Silk Road keeps its grip on Balkan telecom networks

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.

Reported Opinion Abroad AI-drafted CEPA (Bandwidth), 10 August 2026

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

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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