Besides breaking off diplomatic ties with Macedonia on February 9, the PRC has also threatened to block the continued deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Macedonia. (Macedonia has so far avoided the bloody ethnic conflicts that have engulfed much of the Balkans, and the UN and NATO have dispatched forces to help ensure the peace there. However, the mandate for the peacekeepers expires at the end of February.
中共已於二月九日宣佈與馬國斷交；同時由於巴爾幹半島種族、宗教衝突不斷，馬國國內雖然未遭戰火侵凌，它的鄰國阿爾巴尼亞和科索沃卻持續爭戰，為避免戰火蔓延至馬其頓，聯合國和北約組織都派遣了部隊駐防。