Chinese technology as a tool of foreign policy: the case of Albania

by Loren Koçollari During the last decades, Chinese foreign policy has been the focus of the researchers, and there’s an ongoing interest to see how technology has been used or will be used as a tool to expand China’s influence around the world. To better understand this process, this paper relies on the case of Albania, considering its unique trajectory of collaboration with China throughout the last 70 years. After describing the previous and current state of affairs between China and Albania , the paper also reflects on the perspective of this partnership. Introduction Most of the studies focusing on…