{"id":90548,"date":"2019-05-10T02:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/china-charts-a-path-into-european-science"},"modified":"2019-05-10T02:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T09:42:25","slug":"china-charts-a-path-into-european-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/china-charts-a-path-into-european-science","title":{"rendered":"China charts a path into European science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-charts-a-path-into-european-science3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The promise of investments in infrastructure and research appeals to many of the economically challenged nations in central and eastern Europe. These countries have battled brain drain, persistent corruption and lack of support for research and development. In this region, Chinese companies are \u2014 among other projects \u2014 building a bridge to connect two parts of Croatia, although this project stalled in 2012, in part because of funding problems. They are also financing the construction of an energy-efficient \u2018smart city\u2019 near the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, which would be the first such development in Europe, according to promoters.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As the Belt and Road Initiative spreads to central and eastern Europe, China\u2019s investments in research and technology are raising concerns in the West.<\/p>\n<p>By Antoaneta Roussi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/immersive\/d41586-019-01126-5\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The promise of investments in infrastructure and research appeals to many of the economically challenged nations in central and eastern Europe. These countries have battled brain drain, persistent corruption and lack of support for research and development. In this region, Chinese companies are \u2014 among other projects \u2014 building a bridge to connect two parts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}