China’s Silk Road Challenge

12.11.2015 | http://carnegie.ru/commentary/?fa=61949&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohsqvAZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YQGSMd0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D

China’s Silk Road Challenge

Alexander Gabuev

China’s ambitious plans for a new Silk Road of railways, highways, and pipelines are driven by both domestic economic needs and geopolitical ambitions. Russia and the states of Central Asia have yet to make a substantial input into the project.China’s vision of a massive new “Silk Road Economic Belt” is a long road in more than one sense.
Russia has belatedly embraced the idea and declared that the project can be linked to Moscow’s own Eurasian Economic Union, while knowing that it changes the long-term future of Eurasia by bringing in billions of dollars of new Chinese investment into the region.http://carnegie.ru/commentary/?fa=61949&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohsqvAZKXonjHpfsX57uQsW6Sg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YQGSMd0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEIQ7XYTLB2t60MWA%3D%3D