... sector, particularly in the construction of the North–South gas pipeline, which would provide a significant boost to Pakistan's energy infrastructure.
Ivan Timofeev:
Eurasia’s Security System: The Economic Aspect
Impact of regional platforms: SCO, BRI, BRICS and beyond
Regional platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and BRICS have become crucial for enhancing Russia–Pakistan relations. As members of the SCO, Russia and Pakistan have ...
Kazakhstan’s way forward is certainly not obvious; instead, it is tied to future events and competing geopolitical interests
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kazakhstan has strived to build a brighter future. As a new country, Kazakhstan became a founding member of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1992, as well as the Collective Security Treaty (later the Collective Security Treaty Organization) in 1992, and the Eurasian Custom Union ...
... Especially when it comes to the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The leaders of these nations have to keep the U.S. reaction in mind every time they intend to develop joint projects with China, as was evident, for example, in the issue of the KSA’s accession to BRICS. As Chinese experts point out, countries in the region are increasingly being drawn into the global U.S.-China
zero-sum game
. As U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo recently
put it
, “when it comes to new technologies, you can’t be both ...
... Training Plan for Skill Transfer.
China State Construction Group Corporation
is involved in the construction of an international airport in Iraq’s fourth largest city, Nasiriyah. These and many other projects are part of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) with both nations involved therein. It is the geographical location in terms of further development of the BRI as well as Iraq’s energy resources that are of primary interest to China that keeps vigorously developing its ties with Iraq. This also ...
On the intertwined interests of regional and external powers in South Caucasus
Caucasus: turbulence in the shadow of Ukraine
These days, the Caucasus has been pushed to the margins of the international agenda and the media narrative by developments in and around Ukraine. However, the importance of geopolitical transformations in this part of Eurasia should by no means be underestimated.
Sergey Markedonov:
Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict: Last Chapter or More to Come?
To begin with, it was here...
RIAC Working Paper No.84 / 2023
RIAC Working Paper No.84 / 2023
As the world order is undergoing a major transformation, key players in the international arena are reconsidering their foreign policy tools. Connectivity emerges as a new instrument of geopolitical competition, creating not only networks of railroads, digital and energy infrastructure, but also lasting recipient dependencies of respective investments from donors. The following working paper is looking at the European Union as a connectivity...
... of the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, delivered opening remarks.
During the roundtable, leading Russian and Chinese experts discussed the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the context of world order transformation and its role in modernizing global economy. The experts summarized the ten-year evolution of the initiative and compared the BRI with alternative projects of other actors. Special attention was paid to ...
... also the most dynamic and economically potent continent of our planet. The Belt and Road Forum, which attracted dozens of leaders from all the corners of our shared continent, was a perfect location to compare notes on the future destiny of Eurasia.
BRI, SCO, ASEAN, RCEP, CPTPP, CSTO, EAEU, CICA and may other multilateral Eurasian projects can be looked at as sprouts of the new international system germinating through the debris of the old one. These sprouts have to be properly watered, fertilized,...
An important task for the future for Russia is to sync the EAEU and the BRI, developing a roadmap and pointing to projects that could demonstrate its concrete content
In the 10 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21
st
Century Maritime Silk Road in 2013, which are the two ...
... we have in the world economy today.
How does this approach differ from the Western approach to global development? Western countries also build infrastructure, a lot of different facilities in other countries. What is the main difference between the BRI and the standard Western approach?
Well, as for the Western approach, one must look at it in two ways. One is historically; there have been times when Western industrialization was and has been quite effective, at least internally in terms of US commitment ...
