... extent in politics towards booming Asia through the development of Siberia and the Far East, although the turn is belated and slow. Relations of friendship and profound strategic partnership with China have been established. The agreement to pair the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Eurasian Economic Union has proved helpful in avoiding rivalry in Central Asia. Vast potential has been built up for deepening cooperation with the ASEAN countries, Japan and South Korea.
As a result, Russia has secured ...
... Russia’s neighbours to the East and South because they are also hunting for new sources of growth. China and Russia’s EEU partners face similar challenges, although they are looking abroad for different reasons.
China
China's internal economic ... ... could connect China to the EU and Middle Eastern markets. In 2013, the Chinese President first proposed the idea of building a Silk Road Economic Belt and, in May 2015, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping agreed to investigate the possibility of linking up the ...
... EEU will be able to use to address the acute dilemmas. Providing security is also a key condition for carrying out China’s Silk Road Economic Belt project across Central Eurasia.
The discussion also covered the issue of interrelation between the EEU and the Silk Road Economic Belt projects, namely whether these projects are complementary or competitive. The report noted that the EEU is a project of institutional integration, while the Chinese one is a set of infrastructure and transportation projects, which ...
