Impact turns + answers – bfhmrs russia War Good

Solves OBOR collaboration

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Solves OBOR collaboration

Hsiung 19 (Christopher Weidacher Hsiung has worked as researcher at the Centre for Asian Security Studies at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) from 2012 to 2017. He is currently a PhD-candidate in political science at Oslo University. Christopher has also worked at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing, the Swedish Trade Office in Taipei, and at the European University Centre at Peking University. In 2014 he was a visiting scholar at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University and in 2015 researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI). Christopher’s main research interests are China’s foreign and security policy, China-Russia relations and China’s Arctic interest. Christopher has studied Chinese language in Beijing, Wuhan and Taipei., 2019, “Facing the ‘new normal’: The strong and enduring Sino-Russian relationship and its implications for Europe,” The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, https://www.ui.se/globalassets/ui.se-eng/publications/ui-publications/2019/ui-paper-no.-3-2019.pdf) ank

China and Russia have also initiated efforts to coordinate their respective Eurasian regional projects, notably by politically coordinating China’s BRI with Russia’s Eurasia Economic Union (EEU) project. Beijing and Moscow agreed a joint declaration in 2015 to coordinate the BRI with the EEU. There have since been a number of efforts to make cooperation more concrete, for instance through the establishment of working groups and regular ministerial talks. In 2017, an investment fund was created of USD 15 billion to finance projects between the Russian Far East and China’s northeast as part of China’s BRI. China and Russia have reached an agreement on an economic corridor that includes Mongolia. In May 2018, China and Russia signed an © 2019 The Swedish Institute of International Affairs 20 agreement on trade and economic cooperation between the BRI and the EEU. This agreement covers several areas of cooperation, such as customs, trade facilitation, intellectual property rights, sectoral cooperation and government procurement. It is the first ever comprehensive agreement on BRI and EEU coordination.21 Russia is also promoting its Greater Eurasia Partnership, a grand scheme to integrate the EEU, the SCO and the Association of Southeast Asian Sates (ASEAN) into one large economic partnership for Asia. Russia has also called on China to integrate the BRI into the project. China has officially responded positively and the two sides agreed to work jointly to harmonize efforts. Further agreements have been made and a feasibility study was initiated in January 2018.22

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