Valdai Club

As Eurasia is increasingly defined by an integrated network of ties and partnerships taking shape throughout the continent, it is the humanitarian dimension of this interstate cooperation that is coming into focus. Adil Kaukenov explores the cultural, scientific, and educational aspects of Eurasia’s emerging connectivity, highlighting their key role in forging links across the region.

The American-Chinese split provides a suitable groundwork for the fact, that China is interested in strengthening partnership with Russia in developing Eurasian projects. At the same time, to what extent Moscow will be able to convince Beijing to accept the “Greater Eurasia” construct as the optimal formula for regional cooperation, remains an open question, writes Adil Kaukenov, Director of China Center (Kazakhstan).

For the Central Asia states, many of which share a border with China, the most difficult issue is how to skilfully manoeuver between Beijing and Washington in order to continue economic development under powerful propagandist and economic pressure from both sides. Meanwhile, the position of Moscow remains vague, but it will most likely prefer to play its own game, hoping to win dividends by diverting the “fire” to China, writes Adil Kaukenov, Director of China Center (Kazakhstan) and a speaker of the second session of the Valdai Club Central Asian Conference.