Description

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 in a balanced platform for scholars and practitioners from East, West, North, and South. This diversity enriches the contribution, giving it a dynamic ability to examine sources in different languages and cover a vast geographic region.

Divided into ten parts, the book analyses the major powers in a multipolar world order, China’s political and economic interests in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Middle East, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Arctic, and its relations with the Eurasian Economic Union and NATO. International technology and the environmental experts consider the impact of the Belt and Road Initiative, along with other international economic and transport corridors and examine China’s multilateral relations and Digital Silk Road and e-governance roles.

This groundbreaking book will be of interest to policymakers, businessmen, scholars, and students of area studies, cybersecurity and digitalization, economics, security studies, the politics of international trade, Middle East politics, foreign policy, global governance, and international organizations.

ISBN 9781032573762

472 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations

2024 by Routledge

Contents

Preface in Chinese

KEVIN LO

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 Coopetition 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 AND JASON YIP

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