Has China Lost Europe?

For a decade now, China has made the countries of central and eastern Europe one of its diplomatic focal points. Today, however, Europe has become one of China’s biggest foreign-policy headaches. In part, the current situation is a result of economic miscalculations by both sides, which overestimated the potential benefits of the arrangement. But China’s increasingly rigid positions on foreign policies, especially Taiwan and Ukraine, have made things worse. I explore this in a Foreign Affairs article, that you can read here (paywall).