Abstract
In 2009, a vast program for cooperation between the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia, and Northeast China, extending to 2018, was adopted, but it failed due to: negative public sentiments, inflexible Russian bureaucracy, unwritten conditions for not allowing Chinese business into strategic sectors, and the low attractiveness of the Russian Far East for Chinese investors. By 2015, “convergence” of the Silk Road Economic Belt and Eurasian Economic Union was stressed. Russians again are skeptical. Chinese investments are directed at small- and middle-sized enterprises, agriculture, construction, and services, often violating migration and environmental legislation. Chinese investors would like to bring Chinese equipment into Russia tariff-free, to utilize unlimited numbers of Chinese workers, and to lessen control by law enforcement organs. These conditions are rejected, but steps toward a positive scenario are identified.
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Christoffersen, G., Zuenko, I. (2018). Northeast China and the Russian Far East: Positive Scenarios and Negative Scenarios. In: Rozman, G., Radchenko, S. (eds) International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3144-1_13
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