... pirate-infested western edge of the Indian Ocean.
Moreover, China will challenge US in Meddle East especially in Syria, the China-Arab Exchange Association and the Syrian Embassy have recently organized a Syria Day Expo crammed with hundreds of Chinese ... ... and the Russian Eurasia Economic Union would be dismantled.
In addition, America should intensify the efforts to set up Great Central Asian throughout Afghanistan and Baluchistan, in fact, this is already happening. Within the past eight months the Foreign ...
... only the flexibility of bilateral cooperation and a sufficient financial resource but also Beijing being able to provide a wide range of areas for cooperation. Nevertheless, there are factors that limit the growth of economic and political influence of China in Central Asia. Regardless of the advantages of cooperation with Beijing, Central Asian countries are not interested in being economically and politically dependent on China. The limiting factor is the objective necessity in developing their own productive ...
.... Nor should they support EU initiatives aimed at diversifying infrastructure away from Russia. The majority of states in the region are now members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) which has its own legal and regulatory base. When investing in Central Asia, China should work within the EAEU framework and conform to its legal and technical standards. As one Russian expert put it, China can provide the economic content to fill the institutional framework provided by the EAEU (Bordachev, 2016). The idea of ...
... existing migration patterns, where internal migration is dominant, will more than likely continue. Russia will probably remain the primary destination for external labour migration and shuttle trade, although the level is rather low (compared with other Central Asian countries). External migration flows will be distributed between Russia, Turkey, Iran, the Persian Gulf countries and perhaps China, South Korea and the European Union.
Growth in the country’s population will continue for a minimum of 20–40 years.
The evolution of the identity of the majority of the population is also a phenomenon that changes little, and is determined ...
... Research University Higher School of Economics, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and the German Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) held an international seminar “The Silk Road Economic Belt: In Search of EU’s and China’s Common Interests in the Field of Security.”
This workshop is the fourth in a series of international events, aimed at analyzing various security challenges in Central and South Asia that can threaten carrying out major infrastructure,...
... 2016
The Working Paper is prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) as part of the “Russia’s Interests in Central Asia” project.
The goal of the publication is to outline the possibilities of cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia by analyzing the interests of the two countries in relation to the interests of the Central Asian states themselves. The Paper also discusses risks and security challenges which are on the rise in the region and may impede the implementation ...
... requires a delicate resolution. As the concentration of militants in northern Afghanistan grows, as more natives of Russia and Central Asia including the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan join the Islamic State, as there are signs of destabilized situation ... ... that 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 ...
... related to Eurasian energy security and the search for new opportunities for energy cooperation between the countries of Europe, Central Asia and other rapidly growing economies, including Russia. The topics addressed included proposals from the roundtable ... ... government officials, representatives of international institutions and big business from the EU, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia and Argentina. The event was attended by RIAC Programme Manager Liudmila Filippova.
Description of the event
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... Central Asian region, adjacent areas and states. Its relevance derives from the national security interests of Russia and the Central Asian region, connected to the need to develop and adopt a long-term SCO Development Strategy up to 2025.
The document ... ... development, its likely reaction to crises in the region, including in Afghanistan, the possibility of the key players (Russia and China) strengthening its potential, as well as options for increasing the number of permanent members and collaborating with observer ...
... input in development of Siberia and the Far East.
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The Silk Road through the prism of the Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS.
RIAC Program Manager Helena Alekseyenkova spoke on common interests of Russia and China in the economic development, stability and security of Central Asia – the region to be perceived by the concept as a co-development area rather than a transit territory. To this end, the EEU and Great Silk Road seem hardly conflicting, since the former is aimed at institutional and juridical association ...
