... relationship being in a state of stagnation starting from 2016 till now. The following questions should be raised: Which steps must Armenia implement to strengthen its relations with China? How can Armenia be involved in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)?
Andrey Kortunov:
The Liberal Project and Its Relevance for Armenia
Actually, Armenia is the only country among its four neighbors which could not involve any vast Chinese investments in its economy. It is worth mentioning that Turkey and Iran got ...
... spontaneous adoption of Confucianism considering China’s economic prominence in the region.
Beijing adopts a similar attitude; and while countries, such as Kazakhstan, are a necessary route for the transit of Chinese products to the European Union and Great Britain, China sees the Central Asian countries as antagonists due to their religion and to historical factors, as the former nomadic conquerors (e.g. Genghis Khan) still leave a negative resonance in the Chinese mind. In addition, there are territorial ...
The imperative of consolidating and growing BRI in the Middle East is ultimately sufficient for China to accept a regional status quo established via aggressive means, such as what Israel presently aims for, so long as it is stable and sustainable
This author published an
analysis
in
The Tehran ...
... through the Northern route is mainly directed towards Russia [
ii
].
The progressive disengagement by the United States and NATO has been considered as a substantial loss by the Central Asian countries. By May of this year, according to the Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan, the US should withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. While this event could reshape Russia’s role in the region, the agreement between the Taliban and Washington seems to overlook the potential consequences for the security ...
... Russian or Chinese authors. More concretely, first,
Kang
,
Ravitsky
,
Smirnova
,
Qin
and
Xie
argue that Russia recognizes the power and plans of China to realize its rejuvenation and enhance international influence, and Russia plays a key role in the BRI.
Russia–China Dialogue: The 2020 Model
Second,
Kang
,
Li, Yan
,
Ravitsky
,
Yilmaz
,
Liu
,
Smirnova
and
Xie
believe that the two governments enjoy the strong trust and firm partnership, especially for the top leaders, and this trust between ...
... from other plans of Eurasian unification. Let us list of the most important of these principles.
First, the Partnership is not viewed as a potential competitor for regional integration structures (ASEAN, EAEU, RCEP) or trans-border economic projects (BRI) or organizations (the SCO, APEC, ASEM). On the contrary, all of those structures, projects and organizations are seen as nodes and individual parts of the future single Eurasian economic mechanism. The objective of the Partnership is to assemble ...
... envisaged to become an important component of its contemporary foreign policy. President V. Putin simplified this grand strategic vision as “[being formed] on the basis of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and China’s Belt and Road initiative (BRI)” in an
article published
before the APEC Summit in November 2017. He added that “this is a flexible modern project open to other participants.” Building upon this concept, the Russian leader observed during the second BRI Forum in April 2019 ...
On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council
On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank ...
...
Since the beginning of 2020, humanity has been shadowed by the fear and panic of COVID-19, which might cause one to neglect some subtle but significant changes in the world. In November 2019, Washing, a non-member of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the China-led infrastructure project, launched its “Blue Dot Network” (
BDN
) with Australia and Japan. This project is “a multi-stakeholder initiative to bring together governments, the private sector and civil society to promote high-quality,...
... teachers of Arabic in China. After the establishment of official diplomatic relations, Egypt
supported
the PRC in its desire to become a full member of the UN Security Council with the right of veto. In turn, China condemned the aggression of Great Britain, France, and the United States displayed against the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE) during the Suez crisis.
Now Beijing is a crucial military-technical partner of Cairo. From 2012 to 2014, China
shipped
eighteen ASN-209 unmanned aerial vehicles ...
