RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #87 / 2023
RIAC, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Institute of International Studies at Fudan University Report #87 / 2023
The ninth annual report “Russian-Chinese Dialogue: The 2023 Model” analyzes Russia–China relations from the second and fourth quarters of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023. During this...
On May 16, 2023, RIAC held an expert round table on information and image support for Russian-African relations, its challenges and prospects
On May 16, 2023, RIAC held an expert round table on information and image support for Russian-African relations, its challenges and prospects. Two sessions of the round table were devoted to the issues of the current state of Russia's image in Africa and analyzing tools and approaches for its improvement and development.
The participants of the discussion...
... planning the new capital.
Major players such as China and the United States are also involved, but their participation has not been active so far. Thus, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) remains one of the main operators of American investments in Nusantara,
collaborating
with the Capital City Authority to promote the implementation of smart and green technologies in urban development.
Chinese investment has largely been concentrated elsewhere in Indonesia rather than in Kalimantan—namely,...
... became possible largely due to a significant improvement in the investment climate and the ubiquitous introduction of public-private partnerships. In total, the
list of investment projects
has more than 60 positions, and the total amount of possible investments exceeds
USD 40 billion.
The Padma Bridge Rail Link Project with an eponymous
multi-purpose bridge
, connecting the southwest with the northern and eastern regions, can be seen as the flagship project. In the future, the plan calls for establishing ...
... is not high [
4
].
As for investment, although
within the framework of the format in 2014
a $10 billion line of credit was opened to CEE, and China launched two phases of the Investment Cooperation Fund, in 2014 and 2018. When compared with Chinese investments in large EU countries, these figures are not excessive. Cumulative Chinese FDI exceeds 1% of the total only in the economies of Hungary, Romania and Slovenia [
5
].
As for the BRI projects, the most consistently implemented is the development ...
... the socialist system, or naval bases, or the construction of collective farms. Moscow positions itself as a relatively altruistic player: unlike China, which enslaves its partners economically, and the United States, Britain, and France, which require investments in political reforms and compliance with Western standards of public administration, often inapplicable to Africa in general, in return for their loans.
Russia has chosen the Politics First course, in which economic preferences are a natural ...
On September 15, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held an online briefing on current geopolitical risks for a group of investors and managers from Invesco, a transnational investment company
On September 15, 2022, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, held an online briefing on current geopolitical risks for a group of investors and managers from
Invesco
, a transnational investment company.
The event was attended by more than a hundred representatives of the company and financial...
... capital. In practice, the companies that have put down roots in Russia in earnest, such as
Auchan
or
Leroy Merlin
, are not leaving, but niches in this area will definitely
be vacated
.
Third, advanced mining projects that require both large capital investments and technology. There is a precedent, namely JSC Yamal-LNG, where the Chinese CNPC corporation
owns
20% and the Silk Road Fund almost another 10%. There is a successor project already, Arctic LNG-2, in which the Chinese capital so far
owns
...
... investor to increase its productivity and become more profitable. We have built about 22 such industrial parks across the country, creating job opportunities for millions of Ethiopians and attracting many foreign investors.
As for the origins of the investments, the industrial park is open for all those wanting to invest in Ethiopia, no matter where they come from. In that sense, Russians are welcome to invest, to bring in their know-how and their machinery, and to work for the benefit of themselves ...
... the Russian market since 2014.
In turn, Russia’s share was only 2% in Chinese exports in 2020 (with the U.S. share at 17%), and only 3% in imports (compared to 7% for the U.S.,
according to the ITC
).
The same proportions are typical of mutual investments. By the beginning of 2020,
according to the Bank of Russia
, China accounted for less than 0.1% of accumulated direct investment from Russia (with the share of UK and Germany at 4.7% and 2.2%, respectively). As for the accumulated direct ...
