Jelena Jankovic is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Balkan Service.
Amid growing tensions between global powers and continued instability in the Western Balkans, Serbia has intensified its military cooperation with China, acquiring advanced drones and air-defense systems.
The Serbian government is facing renewed scrutiny after RFE/RL reviewed documents revealing a significant expansion of its controversial surveillance program in collaboration with Chinese tech giant Huawei despite public protests and legal challenges.
Serbians appear cool to the idea that Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, might spearhead the conversion of one of Serbia’s most recognizable symbols of the NATO bombing in 1999 into luxury apartments and a hotel.
In a city in North Macedonia notorious for its online scams, there is a new get-rich-quick scheme: Donald Trump-themed debit cards.
