Abstract

The concept of the PRC's co-operation with the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) in the sixteen-plus-one format (G16+1) first emerged in December 2011 when the PRC and Poland signed the strategic-partnership declaration, later formalised in April 2012. The obvious purpose of the G16+1 is to pave the way for the development of the land component of the One Belt One Road Project (OBOR) known as the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB). Poland, thanks to its geographical situation, is predestined to be the SREB's hub bridging land transportation routes coming ...