Serbian President visits China in rebuff to Europe & USA

A news byte in Southeast European Times alerts us to the new Serbian move to jump out of the stranglehold into which the European Union and the United States have placed it regarding former Serbian generals accused of genocide, along with Milosevich now on trial in the Hague, the Netherlands. Serbia is still sufficiently dominated by Milosevichian ideas that the surrender of the generals is too unbearable a thawt from many to whom his war on Kosovo's Muslims put him forward as the living symbol to a thousand years of resistance to the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire whose capital was Istanbul in presentday Turkey.

Boxed in as Serbia is today, with the EU threatening interminable delays to Serbia's membership in Europe while every state around it is advancing toward that goal, and with the US threatening to cut off aid which will be a body-blow to the Serbian economy, unless it cooperates regarding the generals and negotiates in good faith the status of Kosovo, Serbia now makes an end run to renew the old alliance with China, forged on the basis of the Communist bona fides of both. China would gain a permanent troublemaker to keep Europe off balance and a safe-haven for its spies in Europe - out of the China embassy "mistakenly" bombed by the US airforce under Gen Wesley Clarke during the Battle of Belgrade in the Kosovo War. China could supply Belgrade with cheap goods as a "most favoured trading partner," and Serbia's renewed industries could be set up by China to produce knockoffs using technologies stolen from the US and Europe. These could include expensive consumer goods for sale to consumers - TVs, computers, and much more. Just a few tweaks of the Western designs, perhaps improvements even, and Belgrade's re-activated China-connection could add up to economic advance for Serbia merely as an instrument of China's reassertion of power within Europe.

When one connects such a hypothesis with what China is doing in Latin America and in the building of a string of pearls, a series of fortifified ports in Asian waterways to protect the influx of oil to fuel its burgeoning economy, a special status granted by China to Serbia is not inconceivable. Indeed, just as Turkey's Erdogan announced plans to establish a Turkic University in Tirana, Albania, China could ace the cultural war of its own by negotiating the establishement of a Chinese University in Belgrade, to which young Europeans wanting to learn that language and culture could resort - where they would never have the motivation to enroll in a Serbian university! - Owlb

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