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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a sustentabilidade da Cooperação China-CEEC,
uma década depois de ter sido criada. Com sustentabilidade, quero apenas significar se os
Estados participantes sentiram benefícios suficientes para participarem ativamente nas
atividades da Cooperação China-CEEC. Em 2012, a imagem era otimista. Dezasseis países
europeus assinavam acordos com a China para participar num formato de cooperação que lhes
permitiria arrecadar investimento para infraestruturas de que muito necessitavam. Contudo,
dez anos depois, pouco se alterou na fotografia. O que não parece suficiente para estimular a
sustentabilidade desta cooperação.
A Cooperação China-CEEC é um formato de cooperação económica, comercial e cultural entre
a China e um conjunto de países da Europa Central e de Leste iniciada pela China, com o
objetivo de aprofundar os laços entre os países participantes e investir em infraestrutura nessa
região europeia, que foi inserido no One Belt One Road após a oficialização deste. Vários
receios surgiram depois do mecanismo ser anunciado, principalmente dentro da União
Europeia. Surgiram dúvidas sobre as intenções da China: seria uma estratégia para dividir a
Europa, ou para arrecadar influência política sobre os Estados em que iria investir? Alguns
desses receios vieram a verificar-se, e em certas ocasiões alguns Estados Membros bloquearam
iniciativas europeias de censura à China. No entanto, o investimento efetuado durante esta
década não foi significativo, e instalou-se uma insatisfação geral que apenas se agravou depois
de a China não condenar a invasão da Rússia à Ucrânia.
This thesis aims to analyse the sustainability of the China-CEEC Cooperation, one decade after its creation. By sustainability, I only mean that the participating States felt enough benefits to take part in China-CEEC Cooperation activities. In 2012, the picture painted was an optimistic one. Sixteen European countries signed agreements with China to participate in a cooperation format that would allow them to get investment for much needed infrastructure. However, ten years later, not much has changed in that picture. Which does not seem enough to stimulate the sustainability of this cooperation. The China-CEEC Cooperation is an economic, commercial and cultural cooperation format between China and a set of countries from Central and Eastern Europe, initiated by China, with the goal of deepening the ties between the participating countries and invest in infrastructure in this European region, which was inserted in the One Belt One Road after its own officialization. Several fears emerged after the mechanism was announced, especially within the European Union. There were doubts about China’s intentions: could it be a strategy to divide Europe, or to gain leverage over the States they would invest? Some of those fears came true, and in certain occasions, some Member States blocked European initiatives to censor China. However, the investment that was made during this past decade was not significate, and a general dissatisfaction settled in, which was only aggravated after China failed to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
This thesis aims to analyse the sustainability of the China-CEEC Cooperation, one decade after its creation. By sustainability, I only mean that the participating States felt enough benefits to take part in China-CEEC Cooperation activities. In 2012, the picture painted was an optimistic one. Sixteen European countries signed agreements with China to participate in a cooperation format that would allow them to get investment for much needed infrastructure. However, ten years later, not much has changed in that picture. Which does not seem enough to stimulate the sustainability of this cooperation. The China-CEEC Cooperation is an economic, commercial and cultural cooperation format between China and a set of countries from Central and Eastern Europe, initiated by China, with the goal of deepening the ties between the participating countries and invest in infrastructure in this European region, which was inserted in the One Belt One Road after its own officialization. Several fears emerged after the mechanism was announced, especially within the European Union. There were doubts about China’s intentions: could it be a strategy to divide Europe, or to gain leverage over the States they would invest? Some of those fears came true, and in certain occasions, some Member States blocked European initiatives to censor China. However, the investment that was made during this past decade was not significate, and a general dissatisfaction settled in, which was only aggravated after China failed to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.