... for Russian gas on the Chinese market is growing, Russia needs to consider additional pipeline capacities, to the south of the Far East at the very least (where gas infrastructure is mostly lacking). Should need arise, such a step will allow for a rapid ... ... June 2021, Chinese imports of crude oil
grew
by 55% as compared to the previous year. It put Russia in the first place among China’s oil suppliers (ahead of Saudi Arabia). The Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline, the main route for ...
... Chinese influence in the region which may be fraught with Beijing’s expansion and a new, more confident style of dialogue with Washington. Weight to the RFE is also being lent by its geographical proximity to the North America. Consequently, the more China penetrates the Russian Far East, the more risks the USA gains.
Russia in its turn may aim for the role of an independent actor in the Asia-Pacific region, a counterbalance to any attempts of establishing hegemonial regime in Asia – a mechanism of “maintaining the equilibrium”....
On February 24, 2014 Seoul hosted an international conference on development of the Far East and cooperation between South Korea, China and Russia. The event was organized by Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade.
Russia was represented by RIAC Program Manager
Lyudmila Filippova
and
Anatoly Savchenko
, Assistant Director at the Institute of History, Archeology and ...
