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Kazakhstan in the «Silk road economic belt» initiative
 
PIIS032150750000693-4-1
DOI10.31857/S032150750000693-4
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Konstantin Sanin 
Occupation: Post-graduate student, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Affiliation: Post-graduate student, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russia, Moscow
Journal nameAsia and Africa Today
EditionIssue 9
Pages62-67
Abstract

Given its geographical location, resource potential and political weight, Kazakhstan is an important link in the Xi Jinping’s initiative of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB), which is now becoming one of the main issues in the foreign policy of China. In addition to cooperation in the field of economy, transport, trade and investments, the SREB initiative is aimed to enhance the comprehensive connection between the PRC and its neighboring countries in all possible spheres within the framework of the Chinese model of mutually beneficial international relations of a new type, which ultimately should lead to the transformation of the transport routes of the new Silk Road into corridors of joint development and unification of China and other Eurasian states into a «community of common destiny of the mankind». At the same time, Kazakhstan, together with Russia and some other post-Soviet states, is an active participant of the Eurasian integration. The integration of post-Soviet space is multidimensional too, and the problem of linking the two projects of regional integration has appeared. If the Chinese initiatives of the Silk Road Economic Belt and “the community of common destiny” are usually defined in the PRC as part of the so-called Xi Jinping’s thought, then the idea of Eurasian integration to a significant extent can be considered to be part of president Nazarbayev’s thought. In this article, the issue of linking the SREB initiative with the Eurasian integration is being examined by way of comparing the theoretical concepts of China’s and Kazakhstan’s leaders.

KeywordsKazakhstan, eurasianism, Silk Road Economic Belt, China, regional integration
Received30.09.2018
Publication date15.10.2018
Number of characters23104
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