2016 – A Victory of Conservative Realism

... has been stepped up to launch direct railway service to Iran towards India and the Persian Gulf region via Azerbaijan. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) Commission and Beijing are discussing concrete ways to integrate the Silk Road project with the EEU and create a non-preferential free trade area between the Eurasian Economic Union and China. A similar agreement has been signed with Vietnam. Almost forty other countries are wishing to set up such areas with the EEU. A series of agreements between Japan and Russia on economic cooperation in the Far East and on Kurile Islands became ...