THE CHINESE FACTOR IN CENTRAL ASIA: A REVIEW OF MODERN FOREIGNPOLITICAL SCIENCE

Abstract

Comparing perspectives and methodologies, it promotes interdisciplinary dialogue on China’s pivot towards Eurasia, the Belt and Road initiative, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Beijing’s cooperation and arguments with India, the EU, Western Balkans and South Caucasus states and the Sino-Russian struggle for multipolarity and multilateralism inEurasia. It also researches digitalization processes in Eurasia, notably it focuses on China's Silk Road and Digital Agenda of Eurasian Economic Union. With the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a project that aims to integrate China’s frontier spaces more effectively to its center while simultaneously opening them to Eurasian markets and supply chains, Central Asia has gone from being a peripheral region in Beijing’s foreign policy to a pivotal one. Discussions on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) regularly focus on its professed geopolitical or geoeconomic aims and impact.