Section 1 Overall Analysis 1 16+1 as a Laboratory: Lessons China’ s New Relations with CESEE Can Teach Us about the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative 1 How Could the “16+1 Cooperation” Promote the Belt and Road Initiative after the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation 16 Innovation in Understanding and Cooperating the Macro-Regions: The Potential of Promotion of the “16+1 Cooperation” and the Belt and Road Initiative 34 16+1 Promoting Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Potential Policy Responses 54 16+1 China-CEEC Cooperation Platform Promoting Belt and Road: Opportunities and Challenges 71 “16+1 Cooperation” Promoting Belt and Road Initiative Better after the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation 89 Section 2 National Perspectives 102 China in Europe: A View from the Balkans 102 Perception of the 16+1 and the Belt and Road Initiative: A Perspective from Latvia 124 China-Croatia Cooperation: Past, Present and Future 132 How Bosnia and Herzegovina Could Benefit from the Belt and Road Initiative:BRI Perspective of an Ambassador 145