Russia Warming to China’s Belt & Road Initiative Projects

When Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the Belt and Road Initiative over a decade ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin was not enthusiastic about the massive infrastructure drive moving into his country’s “backyard”. Moscow saw landlocked former Soviet countries in Central Asia, such as Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as within its orbit and the belt and road as a challenge to its dominance.

Russia Warming to China’s Belt & Road Initiative Projects
2024/4/25
Portal "Russia’s Pivot to Asia"
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