Beijing builds a new world order: Europe has neglected China through friendship with Putin - the media

According to journalists, Beijing's economic influence in developing countries has grown significantly in recent years. The absence of European leaders in the "One Belt Forum - One Way" in China indicates that the plan of the head of the PRC, the China C, Tsinpin, connect Asia, Africa and Europe with a network of railways and trade routes, has reached a dead end. About it writes Bloomberg.

According to journalists, the Chinese leader has transformed his initiative to the developing club, also known as the "Global South". This union can challenge the West. The publication writes that the previous time when the 2019 Forum was going, 7 EU countries sent their representatives to China. This time, only from the European leaders, Beijing was visited by Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

According to an anonymous European diplomat, the main reason why European leaders refused to go to the forum in 2023, the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin is. "Its appearance is a challenge to Europe and North America," said the Diplomat Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science of the National University of Singapore Chong Jan Jan. It is noted that the forum also lacked representatives of Japan and Singapore.

The material states that Beijing's economic influence in developing countries has grown significantly in recent years after the United States has refused to lend such countries during the Debt Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s. China is currently the largest official lender of some poor developing countries.