... of Central Asia with infrastructure projects and multi-billion dollar contracts. Economic cooperation between China and the countries of Central Asia has been actively developing on bilateral basis in the recent years without being dependent on the SREB initiative.
RIAC Working Paper
“Prospects for Russian-Chinese Cooperation in Central Asia”
A new factor in Beijing’s policy towards Central Asia was adding the necessity for the country’s western regions development to PRC’s domestic agenda due to existing major disproportions in the country’s ...
... Policy Department of the London Center for European Reform.
On March 28, the RIAC hosted a roundtable with Ian Bond, Director of the Foreign Policy Department of the London Center for European Reform.
I. Bond presented the newly released report "
Russia and China: partners of choice and necessity?
" And two political overviews "
Contested space: Eastern Europe between Russia and the EU
" and "
The EU, the Eurasian Economic Union and One Belt, One Road: Can they work together?...
... cooperation, to reveal the commonality and differences in their approaches to common threats and challenges. The Report discusses Russian and Iranian vision of global governance and role of great powers, cooperation in the Middle East region, Central Asia ... ... Afghanistan, trade and economic relations, common transport projects and interaction in international organizations such as SCO, EAEU, SREB initiative etc.
Editor-in-Chief:
I. Ivanov, RAS Corresponding Member, Dr. of History
Authors:
B. Amirahmadian, Ph.D. in Political ...
On October 20, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Chinese Embassy in the Russian Federation held a roundtable “Realities and Prospects for Convergence of SREB and EEU. Joint efforts to establish a Big Eurasian Partnership.”
RIAC President Igor Ivanov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of China to Russia Mr. Li Hui, and Director of the Integration Development Department of the ...
... themselves. The Paper also discusses risks and security challenges which are on the rise in the region and may impede the implementation of economic development projects such as the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the Chinese Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative.
The Working Paper covers the economic interests and presence of Russia and China in the region, and compares their resources for ensuring security. Special attention is paid to the possible cooperation between the two powers in tying together the EEU and the SREB. The authors suggest several promising formats and ...
On 30-31 May 2016 the RIAC held a major international conference entitled “
Russia and China: towards a new quality in bilateral relations
”.
The conference discussed various aspects of the two countries’ relationship, and also the regional dimension of cooperation between Russia and China. There was a special focus ...
... SCO Studies of the Institute for International Studies of Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and post-graduate student Yury Kulintsev from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The experts discussed the current state of affairs and development prospects of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), issues involving the linking of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) and the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) as well as the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the economic situation in the region.
Meeting with a delegation of experts from China
