... Moscow to Islamabad.
Moreover, the BRICS grouping, which brings together Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, offers another avenue for Russia–Pakistan cooperation. While India is a member of BRICS, Russia and Pakistan can still find common ground within this framework to address global economic challenges, call for a more equitable world order and collaborate on issues like sustainable development and climate change.
These regional alliances not ...
... failure of the
Comprehensive Agreement of Investment
and many European States decided to abandon the Belt and Road Initiative. With this in mind, Kazakhstan must never forget the reason for its success thus far: it is a resource- rich country that acts as a bridge between continents, connecting Europe, Russia and China, and in some ways—the world.
... recent
visit
of Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan showed, the movement in this direction has not stopped.
Second, while the focus of geopolitical confrontation between the West (the U.S. and its EU allies) and Russia has shifted from the Caucasus to the Middle East and Ukraine since 2014-2015, this region remains among the most turbulent in the post-Soviet space.
In the last four years alone, the status quo has changed twice in this part of Eurasia. As a result ...
... and the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies (China).
Kong Dan, Chairman of the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies, and Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director, delivered opening remarks.
During the roundtable, leading Russian and Chinese experts discussed the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the context of world order transformation and its role in modernizing global economy. The experts summarized the ten-year evolution of the initiative and compared the BRI with alternative projects of other actors. Special attention was paid to ...
... may other multilateral Eurasian projects can be looked at as sprouts of the new international system germinating through the debris of the old one. These sprouts have to be properly watered, fertilized, pruned and groomed. Not all of them are likely to ... ... Romanov Empire followed its Eastern neighbor into oblivion. History does not need to repeat itself another time—both Chia and Russia can draw appropriate lessons from their past traumatic experiences. Unlike it was the case in the early XX century, today ...
An important task for the future for Russia is to sync the EAEU and the BRI, developing a roadmap and pointing to projects that could demonstrate its concrete content
In the 10 years since Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21
st
Century Maritime Silk Road in 2013, which are the two ...
... Road, join it, and participate in alleviating global poverty, as I mentioned in the beginning.
What is the role of the Eurasian Economic Union and Eurasia in the BRI? To some, it may seem like the Eurasian Union, being an economic bloc mainly around Russia, may come into some kind of conflict with the BRI, because those are two partly competing projects. Is it a true competition, or can the BRI include a lot of different economic blocs within it?
I don’t think that there will be conflict because of the recent agreements between President Xi Jinping ...
... water supplies, which will lead to conflicts between countries in the region and, perhaps, with neighbors such as China and Russia.
The mismanagement of water resources had been a recurring theme in the CIA’s analyses, which as early as the 1960s mentioned ... ... gold to avoid a major economic crisis that could harm Chinese gas supplies and the development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Researchers at Oxford University ran 738 simulations combining possible changes in water consumption with 80 future climate ...
... 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 of Central Asia [
iii
]. Moreover, a widespread fear of Central Asian returnees from the Middle East and the ...
... 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 top ...
