Eastern European countries Latvia and Estonia have withdrawn from the cooperation mechanism between China and Central and Eastern European countries on Thursday (August 11).
According to Reuters, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia explained that it continues to participate in the cooperation mechanism and no longer meet Latvia's strategic goals in the current international environment.
However, Latvia and Estonia also each issued a statement that they will continue to work hard to establish a constructive and pragmatic relationship with China.Essence
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonian has not responded to Reuters' requests for further comment.The two embassies of China in Latvia and Estonia have not responded to Reuters' comment requests.
The cooperation mechanism between China and Central and Eastern European countries was established in 2012. Participants include China and 17 Central and Eastern European countries, including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Czech Republic.
Lithuania decided to withdraw from the cooperation mechanism last year.As Latvia and Estonia have also decided to withdraw, which means that all three countries in the Baltic Sea have withdrawn from the cooperation mechanism.
Czech Congress also called on the Czech to withdraw from the cooperation mechanism earlier.After that, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs in May said that China will start large -scale investment and the commitment of mutual benefit trade has not yet been realized.
