Russia and China in the Eurasian Space: Contemporary Challenges and Risks of Transport Interaction

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Abstract

Under the influence of increasing sanctions pressure from Western countries on the Russian Federation, the untapped potential of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the field of transport and transit can become a compensating resource that helps to partially smooth out the processes of complex economic adaptation of the domestic transport system. The importance of co-development of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), taking into account the complex and long-term influence of Russian-Ukrainian events, is gaining new geopolitical weight. The article analyzes the specifics of national-regional and transport interests, mutual transport and logistics security problems, inconsistencies, competitive challenges and contradictions, features of national interests of transit countries, in particular the Central Asian states, which directly or indirectly determine the general level and nature of bilateral and multilateral relations with Russia and China.

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Nеlli K. Semenova

Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: semenovanelli-2011@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7872-8972
PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher Moscow, Russia

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