Weiqing Song is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau, China.

• 1. Westward ho—the China Dream and ‘one belt, one road’: Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi Jinping2. The "16+1 Cooperation" under the "Belt and Road" Initiative3. Economic Relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Investment Issues4. From Mutual Understanding to a New Paradigm of Cooperation: China’s Public Diplomacy toward CEECs5. CEECs-China: Whose Norms, Whose Values? 6. EU’s presence in CEECs and its impact on China-CEEC cooperation7. Czechia’s Relations with China: on a Long Road toward a Real Strategic Partnership? 8. Hungary and China Relations9. Between Central and Local Interdependence: Dimensions of Poland’s Relations with China10. Sino-Romanian Relations under the New World Order, Iulia Monica Oehler-Şincai11. China’s Engagement in the Balkans: Challenges and Prospects from a Geopolitical Perspective

Weiqing Song is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau, China.

• 1. Westward ho—the China Dream and ‘one belt, one road’: Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi Jinping2. The "16+1 Cooperation" under the "Belt and Road" Initiative3. Economic Relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Investment Issues4. From Mutual Understanding to a New Paradigm of Cooperation: China’s Public Diplomacy toward CEECs5. CEECs-China: Whose Norms, Whose Values? 6. EU’s presence in CEECs and its impact on China-CEEC cooperation7. Czechia’s Relations with China: on a Long Road toward a Real Strategic Partnership? 8. Hungary and China Relations9. Between Central and Local Interdependence: Dimensions of Poland’s Relations with China10. Sino-Romanian Relations under the New World Order, Iulia Monica Oehler-Şincai11. China’s Engagement in the Balkans: Challenges and Prospects from a Geopolitical Perspective

Weiqing Song is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Macau, China.

• 1. Westward ho—the China Dream and ‘one belt, one road’: Chinese Foreign Policy Under Xi Jinping2. The "16+1 Cooperation" under the "Belt and Road" Initiative3. Economic Relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe: Trade and Investment Issues4. From Mutual Understanding to a New Paradigm of Cooperation: China’s Public Diplomacy toward CEECs5. CEECs-China: Whose Norms, Whose Values? 6. EU’s presence in CEECs and its impact on China-CEEC cooperation7. Czechia’s Relations with China: on a Long Road toward a Real Strategic Partnership? 8. Hungary and China Relations9. Between Central and Local Interdependence: Dimensions of Poland’s Relations with China10. Sino-Romanian Relations under the New World Order, Iulia Monica Oehler-Şincai11. China’s Engagement in the Balkans: Challenges and Prospects from a Geopolitical Perspective