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China's growing interests in the non-EU New Eastern Europe (Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova) have both economic and political goals. The PRC intends to gain low-cost technologies, diversify its exports, promote its products and brands, enter new markets and acquire strategic assets. Politically, China would like to be an important player in post-Soviet European countries - an area of interest to both Russia and the European Union. The EU should bot underestimate China's engagement in this region since Chinese policy may be perceived as a challenge to the Eastern Partnership.