“Rust Belt” on the Border with Russia in the Public Eye

... their assessment allows for understanding the agenda and predicting the policies of the Chinese authorities. This year, apart from adopting a new five-year plan, observers’ attention was drawn to the northeastern provinces of China that border Russia. Against the backdrop of an economic slowdown, these regions, often combined in the so-called “Chinese Rust Belt,” appear to be most vulnerable to social tension, and therefore, it is exactly there that the methods “of economic ...