Chairman Xi Jinping’s week-long visit to France, Hungary and Serbia happens on the “triple backdrop” of the Ukraine-Russia and Gaza-Israel wars and the intensifying geoeconomic rivalry with the United States . . . The Chinese leader is likely to make important announcements in Belgrade and Budapest later this week, focusing on tech, AI and transportation infrastructure and “the Central European nodes of China’s New Silk Road” . . . Back home, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, led by Xi’s protégé John Lee Ka-Chiu, just published Asia’s most ambitious sustainable finance “taxonomy”, showing that China also intends to step-up its global leadership in the field of renewable energy and green finance: the “New Great Game” is just beginning . . .

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