[1] It is now the largest industrial park built pursuant to the BRI and serves as a major channel for Chinese goods to enter Europe.

Even in the era of Western sanctions on this country, China continues cooperating in high-tech and innovation development with this post-Soviet Eurasia state.

[6] Lukashenko traveled to Beijing for the 2023 Belarus–China Summit, during which the countries agreed to create a free trade zone in Belarus in 2023.

[6] On March 1, 2023, Lukashenko and Xi jointly called for the "soonest possible" peace deal in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, stating their "deep concern about the development of the armed conflict in the European region and extreme interest in the soonest possible establishment of peace in Ukraine".

[7] The same month, the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Forces of Belarus conducted joint military exercises a few kilometers from the Belarus–Poland border.