Change and Continuity in China’s Central Asian Interactions: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Push

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Youngjae Pak
Keyword(s):  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Belt And Road

scholarly journals Belt and Road Initiative: Catalyst for the Central Asian Integration?

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Noor Halimah Anjani
Keyword(s):  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Asian Integration

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) merupakan strategi pembangunan yang dikeluarkan oleh Pemerintah Tiongkok. BRI fokus membangun kerja sama dan konektivitas antara negara-negara di Eurasia. Asia Tengah merupakan salah satu kawasan yang dilewati oleh pembangunan BRI. Permasalahan ekonomi dan pembangunan menjadi alasan mengapa negara-negara ini antusias dengan adanya BRI. Namun, selain masalah ekonomi dan pembangunan, terdapat masalah lain seperti kurang baiknya hubungan antarnegara di kawasan. Pasca runtuhnya Uni Soviet, negara-negara di Asia Tengah mengalami gejolak sosial dan ekonomi. Politik isolasi pun dilakukan oleh negaranegara tersebut dengan anggapan bahwa hal tersebut merupakan cara terbaik untuk menghindari perluasan masalah terlepas dari keberadaan organisasi-organisasi kawasan di Asia Tengah. Penulis melihat terbatasnya integrasi regional sebagai salah satu alasan mengapa stabilitas kawasan di Asia Tengah sulit tercapai. Paper ini bertujuan untuk meneliti sejauh mana BRI mampu menjadi katalis bagi negara-negara Asia Tengah untuk meningkatkan kerja sama regional.

scholarly journals Extent of the “Belt and Road” Initiative in Stimulating Economic Growth in Post-Soviet Central Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Yiling Ding
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Soviet Central Asia ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
Five Central Asian Countries

As the “core area” of the “Silk Road Economic Belt,” the five Central Asian countries occupy an important position in the “Belt and Road” strategy. With the increase of China’s investment, the infrastructure of the five Central Asian countries has been continuously developing, economy persists to grow, and the people’s standards of living have been constantly improved. This article focuses on how the “Belt and Road” initiative has promoted the economic growth of the five Central Asian countries.

scholarly journals Russian-Chinese cooperation in Central Asia in the context of ‘Belt and Road Initiative:’ Historical retrospective and economic prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-864
Author(s):  
Stanislav E. Martynenko ◽  
Nickolay P. Parkhitko
Keyword(s):  
Silk Road ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Silk Road

This article examines Russo-Chinese investment cooperation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (originally the Silk Road Economic Belt). At the same time, it also studies bilateral agreements, as well as investment and mechanisms. Another focus is the impact of the BRI in Central Asian countries on Russian interests in the region. Research is based on an analysis of the history of joint Russian and Chinese initiatives for economic development to determine the feasibility of cooperation in the BRI. Meanwhile, the authors discuss the BRI’s impact on the economic and foreign policy of the two partners, as well as the risks and opportunities for Russia. The article is based on content and statistical analysis combined with a historical approach. It concludes that Russia and China are actively developing investment cooperation in the framework of the BRI, including the Silk Road Fund. The principal elements of the partnership involve the economy and processing and transporting energy resources. Its objective is to attain both regional economic stability as well as maximizing economic and political independence.

scholarly journals New Trends in Central Asian Connectivity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Indeo
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Land Bridge ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
Central Asian Countries ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Central Asian Republics

The main aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of the China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and of Uzbekistan's proactive regional policy to promote regional interconnectivity and to develop an “endogenous” cooperation mainly focused on the strategic interests of Central Asian countries. Within the BRI, Central Asia holds a strategic relevance, because this region is crossed by two of the six main BRI corridor projects – the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor and the Eurasian land bridge – which will contribute to improve regional cooperation and connections among these countries. For Central Asian republics, BRI represents an attractive project benefiting of Chinese huge investments aimed to boost infrastructures and to develop national economies. Under Mirziyoyev's leadership, Uzbekistan has undertaken a proactive and constructive regional diplomacy in Central Asia, based on the improvement of relations and cooperation with other Central Asian republics, which has become a key priority of Tashkent's foreign policy.

Prospects for the Belt and Road Initiative in 2019-23

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Belt And Road

Subject Prospects for the Belt and Road Initiative in 2019-23. Significance Five years on, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a multi-purpose foreign policy brand that encompasses far more than was initially envisaged. It has evolved from an initiative focused on Central Asian infrastructure to one with industrial, technological, environmental and legal components, and which extends geographically as far as the Arctic and into outer space.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Jagjeet Lally
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Continental Interior ◽  
The Belt And Road ◽  
The Web

The recent return to terrestrial forms of connectivity over long distances, not least in the wake of China’s inauguration of the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, has renewed interest in the Silk Roads. This chapter explains that the web of routes which connected various parts of Afro-Eurasia persisted throughout the rise of trans-oceanic networks after circa 1500, at which time north-south routes from the Eurasian continental interior into the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean world became more prominent. The history of this remarkable survival is one of the themes of this book. To introduce these themes, this chapter sketches the contours of those states and empires—Mughal, Sikh, Afghan, Safavid, Uzbek, British and Russian—whose fates were tied up with the history of Indo-central Asian caravan trade.

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