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The Belt and Road Initiative and Sino-Russian economic cooperation: Is there one more chance for us?

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  • Petr M. Mozias

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative could be treated ambiguously. On the one hand, it is intended to transform the newly acquired economic potential of that country into its higher status in the world. China invites a lot of nations to build up gigantic transit corridors by joint efforts, and doing so it applies productively its capital and technologies. International transactions in RMB are also being expanded. But, on the other hand, the Belt and Road Initiative is also a necessity for China to cope with some evident problems of its current stage of development, such as industrial overcapacity, overdependence on imports of raw materials from a narrow circle of countries, and a subordinate status in global value chains. For Russia participation in the Belt and Road Initiative may be fruitful, since the very character of that project provides us with a space to manoeuvre. By now, Russian exports to China consist primarily of fuels and other commodities. More active industrial policy is needed to correct this situation . A flexible framework of the Belt and Road Initiative is more suitable for this objective to be achieved, rather than traditional forms of regional integration, such as a free trade zone.

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  • Petr M. Mozias, 2019. "The Belt and Road Initiative and Sino-Russian economic cooperation: Is there one more chance for us?," Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP Voprosy Ekonomiki, issue 12.
    • Handle: RePEc:nos:voprec:y:2019:id:2546
    DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2019-12-47-71
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