China and Central Asia: Growing Friendship at Russian Borders

... mining, agriculture, and hydropower industry. Chinese Presence and Eurasian Integration Russia and China are currently the countries with the strongest political and economic presence in some regions in Central Asia. Strengthening PRC’s positions in Central Asian region directly touches upon perspectives of Eurasian integration, as integration initiatives promoted by Moscow and Beijing, such as EAEU и SREB, are addressed towards economic and political structuring of the neighboring regional space around its own nucleus. There are at least two approaches to estimate cooperation of the Eurasian integration project with Chinese economic initiatives in ...