Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese and Eurasian International Relations explores China’s relations with the Eurasian continent’s regions and countries in a multipolar era, providing an equal and balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South. Divided into ten parts, this handbook analyses the major powers in a Multipolar World Order; China’s political and economic interests in post-Soviet Eurasia, Middle East, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Arctic; and China's relations with the US, Russia, Eurasian Economic Union, NATO and other players.

Introduction of Chinese Eurasian Relations

MHER SAHAKYAN AND ANAHIT PARZYAN

Part I

Powers Play in Eurasia in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

1. China’s Position on Russo-Ukrainian War in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

MHER SAHAKYAN

2. US-China Competition in Eurasia: Actions and Reactions in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

GREG SIMONS

PART II

Central Asia

3. Empowering the Dragon: Strategic Competition of China and Russia in the Central Asian  Natural Gas Sector

TAMAS DUDLAK

4. India’s Engagement with Central Asia and Competition with China in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

SRDJAN ULJEVIC

5. Belt and Road Initiative’s and Central Asia’s Challenges: Case Study Kazakhstan

RUSLAN IZIMOV

 6. Rethinking China-Kyrgyzstan Relations: Addressing Challenges and Imbalances

ZAMIRA MURATALIEVA

Part III

Middle East

 7. Turkey and China in the Eurasian Landmass: From Bilateral Relations to the Silk Road Cooperation

 SELÇUK ÇOLAKOĞLU

 8. Iran’s Look to the East Policy after US Withdrawal from Nuclear Deal: Chinese and Russian Directions

 DAVOUD GHARAYAGH-ZANDI  

 9. The GCC states and China: Asymmetric Relations in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

MÁTÉ SZALAI

Part IV

Europe

 10. Unpacking Germany’s Contemporary Relationship with China: The Political and Economic Factors Driving the Hedge

MAXIMILIAN OHLE, RICHARD J. COOK AND ZHAOYING HAN

 11. Relations between China and Italy in the Context of the Development of the World Market 

ORAZIO MARIA GNERRE

 12. Czech-China Relations: Future Possibilities and Policy Shifts in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

ŠÁRKA WAISOVÁ

 13. Analysing Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Serbia: Political, Economic, and Military-Technical Relations

 NENAD STEKIĆ

 14. Poland-China Relations: Policy Shifts, Economic, Educational, and Cultural Ties in a Multipolar World Order 2.0

ELŻBIETA PROŃ

 15. China and Greece: Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations in the Multipolar World Order 2.0

GINA PANAGOPOULOU

Part V

Asia-Pacific

 16. Examining Hong Kong’s Agency within Sino-American Relations

BRIAN WONG YUE SHUN AND JASON YIP WAI CHEONG

 17. US-China Competition: Framing New Security Architecture in the Asia-Pacific Region

AHMED BUX JAMALI, MEHMOOD HUSSAIN AND HONGSONG LIU

 18. Unpacking the Discursive Strategies and Drivers of Chinese Visions of an Alternative World Order: History and Emotions in the South China Sea Dispute 

 ERIC POMÈS AND MATTHIEU GRANDPIERRON

 19. Exploring the Conditions for Settling the South China Sea Territorial Dispute between China and Malaysia

 YULONG DAI

 20. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Japan’s Strategic Response through the AAGC, QUAD and FOIP 2.0

TONY TAI-TING LIU

 21. China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Sri Lanka: A Geopolitical Perspective

ASANTHA SENEVIRATHNA

 22. Mongolia and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Multipolar World Order 2.0

CONNOR JUDGE

PART VI

Arctic

 23. The Dragon and the Bear on the Polar Silk Road: The Impact of Sino-Russian Cooperation on the Great Power Competition in the Arctic

 JAN ŽELEZNÝ

Part VII

China’s Relations with the Eurasian Economic Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 24. The Eurasian Economic Union–China Relations: Challenges and Prospects

GOHAR BARSEGHYAN

 25. Analysing CPC’s Image-Building for the EU and the US in the Context of NATO 

ARMINE ARZRUMANYAN

Part VIII

Digitalization and International Relations

 26. Legal Aspects of the Digital Silk Road: Trends and Challenges

MAGDALENA ŁĄGIEWSKA   

 27. Exploring the Competition and Technological Decoupling between the US and China: A Case Study of the Digital Silk Road and the EAEU States

LEV M. SOKOLSCHIK AND EDUARD Z. GALIMULLIN

Part IX

Environmental Politics

 28. Environmental Geopolitics: The Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Global Influence

KEVIN LO

 29. Tackling Environmental Worries and Social Tensions in Italy and China through E-Government Systems

 GIORGIO CARIDI

Part X

CONCLUSION

 30. Conclusion: The Eurasian Continent is in a Multipolar World Order 2.0 stage

 MHER SAHAKYAN