CHINA’S ROLE IN CENTRAL ASIA: ACCESS TO MARKETS
Abstract
ABSTRACT
President Xi Jinping's Central Asian journey in the fall of 2013 marked Beijing's first-ever (re)turn to Central Asia as a lynchpin of the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) globally ambitious "Silk Road Economic Belt". China's Belt and Road Initiative presents Central Asia as a hub for cross-regional infrastructure development, trade and investment. China's Central Asian development goals, such as building oil and gas pipelines from Central Asia to carry energy all the way to China and expanding the Eurasian Railroad to move commodities from China's manufacturing bases in both coastal and inland regions to Europe and Central Asia. How the BRI can transform Central Asia's different national interests, constraints and opportunities. China appears to be in control of how the relative balance of possibilities and impediments for both sides and their bordering states and areas will play out. The enormous number of train lines bound for Europe via Central Asia, as well as a significant geo-economic force that pulls the Chinese economy's gravity westward within China, then pushes its influence in the new market.
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