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Moscow Is Still Central Asia’s Top Security Ally

... 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 ...

17.03.2021

Russian Perception of the Belt and Road Initiative from 2013 to 2019

... 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 ...

02.12.2020

Eight Principles of the “Greater Eurasian Partnership”

... 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 ...

28.09.2020

Pakistan’s Role in Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership

... 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 ...

03.06.2020

RIAC at the Global Counter Terrorism Council’s Webinar

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 ...

30.04.2020

The Infrastructure Competition Between the West and China: A Co-Prosperous Future?

... 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,...

03.04.2020

Egypt-China Relations at the Present Stage

... 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 ...

03.03.2020

China’s Trade Policy Shift as International Capacity Cooperation Policy Rebranded

China’s two-arm approach of strategically opening and closing will likely continue China’s major international trade and investment policy ‘ International Capacity Cooperation ’ (ICC) is getting a rebrand. ICC emerged as the dominant trade policy coordinating China’s outbound FDI in 2015. This came as the Xi administration struggled with a slowing economy and a transition to domestic consumption and a move away from manufactured exports towards capital FDI internationally. Supply-side Reform complemented...

25.02.2020

International Relations in South Asia: Russia’s and Sri Lanka’s Views

RIAC and the Pathfinder Foundation Policy Brief #24 / 2019 RIAC and the Pathfinder Foundation Policy Brief #24 / 2019 It is no coincidence that the 21st century has been dubbed the “Asian Century,” with the centre of economic and political life in the world once again shifting to where ...

29.11.2019
 

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