{"id":358012,"date":"2025-08-19T23:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358012\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T23:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:49:11","slug":"chinas-growing-ties-with-serbia-point-to-new-silk-curtain-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358012\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s growing ties with Serbia point to new &#8216;Silk Curtain&#8217; in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20250820 XI JINPING in SERBIA\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Chinese President Xi Jinping is introduced to the crowd at the\u00a0Palace of Serbia\u00a0in Belgrade by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on May 8, 2024.\u00a0 \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>KEN MORIYASU<\/p>\n<p>August 20, 2025 03:48 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">WASHINGTON &#8212; Southeast of the &#8220;Iron Curtain&#8221; famously described by Winston Churchill in 1946, a new group of China-friendly nations is forming a north-south line that runs through the heart of Eurasia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping is introduced to the crowd at the\u00a0Palace of Serbia\u00a0in Belgrade by Serbian President Aleksandar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[126022,76541,102794,2000,299,5187,38788,9641,6581,6567,50175],"class_list":{"0":"post-358012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-silk","9":"tag-chinas","10":"tag-curtain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-growing","15":"tag-new","16":"tag-point","17":"tag-serbia","18":"tag-ties"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115058112380246717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}