In March, as Europe was in the grip of the first outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic kissed the Chinese flag and hailed Beijing for its support in fighting the coronavirus. Six months later, he met Donald Trump at the White House — and publicly backed an idea to rename a lake after the US president.
The endorsement came on the heels of a delegation of US officials representing six federal agencies as well as the president’s Balkans envoy Richard Grenell, who was the first to suggest a lake named after Trump.
Serbia had “opened the doors of Washington, which were closed for us for the last 30 years,” Mr Vucic told the Financial Times in an interview in Belgrade.
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