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On the (Belt &) Road to Failure? The Challenges of China’s Soft Power Policy in Central Asia (and Beyond)

September 25, 2019
Sebastien Peyrouse

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Notwithstanding twenty years of increasingly prominent political, economic and security relations, China remains poorly understood and even feared among Central Asians. Despite its emergence as the…

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Kassenova: Shallow progress in linking the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative indicates that it’s mostly rhetorical, but signals Russian and Chinese intentions

November 9, 2018
PONARS Eurasia

(The Diplomat) “Synergizing” China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) remains in the rhetoric of both sides, most recently while Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was…

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On the (Belt &) Road to Failure? The Challenges of China’s Soft Power Policy in Central Asia (and Beyond)

Kassenova: Shallow progress in linking the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative indicates that it’s mostly rhetorical, but signals Russian and Chinese intentions