... the framework of the North-South corridor, as well as ramping up mutual trade turnover and attracting Turkmen business to the empty niches in Russia, vacated after the exodus of
Western companies
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Andrey Kortunov:
SCO an Organic Element of Emerging Eurasian Security
Turkmenistan’s ambitious project of a transport corridor to Turkey via Iran and Iraq fits logically into the national leadership’s chosen strategy of getting involved in international logistics projects. It should become part of the more ambitious East-West project to deliver Chinese freights to Europe. The southern “offshoot” ...
... agreements between Russian oil and gas companies and their Chinese partners, and keen interest displayed by Asian investors in Eurasian economies. This will reinforce the "turn-to-the-East" trend which manifests itself in the heightened intensification ... ... originating from 12 Asian countries (China, Japan, Turkey, India, Israel, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iran, Singapore, and Vietnam) has increased from $32 billion in 2008 to $75.6 billion in the beginning of 2017.
China continues ...
... the rise. Sanctions fostered closer links between Iran and China and Iran is one of the destination-points for the Silk Road. It enjoys real leverage in Central Asia and Afghanistan and is using that leverage to fight ISIS and other radical Islamists; Iran could therefore become a major partner for Eurasian states in the field of security.
Russia’s Interests in Eurasia
Many commentators search for the origins of Russia’s Eastern or Eurasian foreign policy in the philosophy of Eurasianism or the geopolitics of the 19th and 20th centuries....
