Poland demands reopening of trains

Poland wants to reopen trains towards Belarus

Belarus returns to the center of Eurasiatic trade routes: the Foreign Ministries of China and Poland have started negotiations on reactivating the railway terminal of Małaszewicze, located at the Belarusian border. Through Belarus, about 13% of Chinese exports to Europe transit, making the corridor a strategic infrastructure for East-West flows.

For Warsaw the issue is double: on one hand, diverting goods via Lithuania and Latvia costs an additional 20-40%; on the other hand, there is the blockade of Polish poultry exports to China, decided by Beijing due to bird flu.

👀 Hence the Polish proposal: reopen the strategic terminal in Belarus in exchange for access of national poultry production to the Chinese market, not from individual regions but from the entire country.

A pressure attempt that once again shows how Belarus remains an indispensable node of Eurasiatic connections, while Brussels uses Warsaw as a pawn in its geopolitical game with Beijing.