China and Eurasia Rethinking Cooperation and Contradictions in the Era of Changing World Order

This book facilitates exchanges between scholars and researchers from around the world on China– Eurasia relations. Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing’s cooperation and arguments with India, the EU, the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus states and the Sino– Russian struggle for multipolarity and multilateralism in Eurasia. It also researches digitalization processes in Eurasia, focuses notably on China's Digital Silk Road, and the Digital Agenda of the Eurasian Economic Union. Multipolarity without multilateralism is a dangerous mix. Great power competitions will remain. In the Asian regional system, more multilateral cushions have to be developed. Scholars from different nations including China, India, Russia, Austria, Armenia, Georgia, United Arab Emirates, and Montenegro introduce their own, independent research, making recommendations on the developments in relations, and demonstrating that through joint discussions it is possible to find ways for cooperation and for ensuring peaceful coexistence. The book will appeal to policymakers and scholars and students in Chinese, Eurasian International and Oriental Studies.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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Part I China, Eurasia, and the New World Order

1. Eurasia between Multipolarity and Multilateralism

Heinz Gärtner

2. Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind: The New International Vision of the Chinese Development Model

Yuntian Zheng

3. China’s Digital Silk Road and Eurasian Economic Union’s Digital Agenda: Cooperation over Competition

Anahit Parzyan

Part II Transportation Infrastructure Connectivity Between China and Eurasia– Case Study

4. Problems and Prospects of the Transportation Infrastructure Connectivity Between China and Eurasia: A Case Study on China Railway Express

Bin Ma

Part III Sino-Russian Cooperation in the Era of Changing World Order

5. Sino-Russian Tandem in Eurasia and Changing World Order: The Dawn of the EAEU and BRI’s Complementary Cooperation and Development

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6. Russo-Chinese Economic Cooperation in the Context of the Belt and Road Initiative: The Factors of Eurasian Economic Union and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Konstantin

P. Kurylev

Part IV The European Union, Western Balkans, South Caucasus and Belt and Road Initiative

7. The Belt and Road Initiative and China-EU relations

Anatoly V. Tsvyk

8. China in the Western Balkans: A New Player in the Strategic Game

Boris Vukićević

9. Strategic Cooperation between China and the South Caucasus Countries

Vakhtang Charaia and Mariam Lashkhi

Part V China and the Rising Economic Powerhouses: BRI and Gulf Cooperation Council States; ASEAN-China- India Triangle

10. The GCC Countries and China: Exponentially Growing Partnership in Rapidly Changing World Order

Ebrahim Hashem

11. ASEAN-China- India Triangle Relationship: Challenges and Opportunities

Sudhir Kumar Singh

Conclusion

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