China's Xi weaves Poland into 'new silk road' plan

Warsaw

CHINESE President Xi Jinping drummed up investment and trade with Poland on Monday as the European Union's largest eastern economy eyes financing by the Asian giant.

Mr Xi and Polish President Andrzej Duda inked a broad strategic partnership deal on political and economic cooperation, part of Beijing's much vaunted efforts of establishing land and sea links for European trade, known as the "Belt and Road" policy.

Poland is China's largest trade partner in eastern Europe and in 2015, bilateral trade reached US$17.1 billion, according to Chinese figures. But there is a chroni…